ath10k-firmware: QCA4019 hw1.0: Add Meraki MR33 specific BDFs

Chris Blake chrisrblake93 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 08:04:13 PDT 2018


On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 3:15 AM, Sven Eckelmann
<sven.eckelmann at openmesh.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The support for this device was added a while ago to OpenWrt. This AP requires
> two special BDFs to get the Wi-Fi PHYs working (correctly). The  bmi-board-
> id='s would clash with one of the the IPQ401X AP-DK boards because QCA doesn't
> provide special IDs for customers and seems to use the AP-DK board-ids in the
> wifi firmware to change its behavior.
>
> Now to the questions from the wiki page [1]:
>
> * description for what hardware this is:
>
>   - it is a IPQ4029 based board
>   - one QCA40xx radio is used as 2.4GHz radio
>   - one QCA40xx radio is used as 5GHz radio
>
> * origin of the board file (did you create it yourself or where you
>   downloaded)
>
>   - Chris didn't include this info in the OpenWrt commit (maybe he can add it
>     here)
>   - most likely taken from stock firmware image
>
> * ids to be used with the board file (ATH10K_BD_IE_BOARD_NAME in ath10k)
>
>   - QCA4019 hw1.0
>
>     + bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=20,variant=Meraki-MR33
>       sha256sum:
>       44e8e733d5fc9bd747520d492c776a6fa4cd7effed69098aeb6f9d437785ebad
>     + bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=21,variant=Meraki-MR33
>       sha256sum:
>       e816565130fae895cfa0c1760cfb47703f1bc5f24ce87922f86e94d4e2b6ccd2
>
> * attach the actual board file (board.bin)
>
>   - The name of the files are equal to the id string in the board-2.bin
>     (minus the ".bin")
>
> Kind regards,
>         Sven
>
> [1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/boardfiles

Hello,
For the Meraki MR33, the board file was pulled out of the factory
firmware image with assistance from Christian Lamparter, who I have
CCd to this thread.

Regards,
Chris Blake



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