Compex QCA9880 Aarch64 ath10k firmware?

[Brad Pousland]

Is anyone aware of the ath10k driver working with arm64 backported to
3.19?  I'm running into a firmware crash.

[  194.460687] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: pci irq msi-x interrupts 8
irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
[  194.638979] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
ath10k/cal-pci-0000:01:00.0.bin failed with error -2
[  195.788482] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: received unsolicited fw crash interrupt
[  195.794237] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: received unsolicited fw crash interrupt
[  196.793965] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to receive control
response completion, polling..
[  196.801242] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: received unsolicited fw crash interrupt
[  196.806991] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: received unsolicited fw crash interrupt
[  197.793962] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: Service connect timeout
[  197.798308] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: failed to connect htt (-110)
[  197.874806] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: could not init core (-110)
[  197.879434] ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: could not probe fw (-110)

Brad


Brad Pousland
Principle Software Engineer
WigWag, Inc.
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On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 12:02 AM, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior at tieto.com> wrote:
> 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