Compex QCA9880 Aarch64 ath10k firmware?
Michal Kazior
michal.kazior at tieto.com
Tue May 17 22:02:16 PDT 2016
On 18 May 2016 at 01:11, Brad Pousland <bpousland at izuma.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm cross compiling backports-4.2.6-1 to Aarch64 for Linux 3.19.3+ and
> running the ath10k drivers against the Compex QCA9880 module. I get
> some firmware load errors.
>
> [ 47.824874] Loading modules backported from Linux version v4.2.6-0-g1c02865
> [ 47.830525] Backport generated by backports.git v4.2.6-1-0-g90118c7
> [ 209.931062] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8
> irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
> [ 210.106576] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
> ath10k/cal-pci-0000:01:00.0.bin failed with error -2
> [ 210.115638] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
> ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/board.bin failed with error -2
> [ 210.124598] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to fetch generic board data: -2
> [ 210.130245] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to fetch board file: -2
> [ 210.135211] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: could not fetch firmware files (-2)
> [ 210.140598] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: could not probe fw (-2)
>
> Firmware is:
> firmware-2.bin_10.1.467.3-1
> firmware-5.bin_10.2.4.70.42-2
> firmware-3.bin_10.2.2.39.6-1
>
> Why does it appear to be looking for board.bin? I understood that was
> removed from the latest ath10k driver?
You're probably referring to the removal of FW API 1. This didn't
concern board files. You still need board.bin or board-2.bin.
Michał
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