ath10k-firmware: QCA4019 hw1.0: Update Plasma Cloud PA1200 specific BDFs

[Kalle Valo]

Sven Eckelmann <sven at narfation.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> the firmware 10.4-3.6-00140 crashed [1] when the 5GHz of the PA1200 was 
> set up. It was noticed that this is somehow related to the option 
> baseEepHeader.nonLinearTxFir which was set to 1. There was no feedback from 
> QCA and the manufacturer about this problem. So as only known workaround (with 
> the latest firmware), this option was set to 0 and the modified BDFs were 
> integrated in OpenWrt [2].
>
>
> Now to the questions from the wiki page [3]:
>
> * description for what hardware this is:
>
>    - it is a IPQ4019 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)
>
>   - the file from ath10k-firmware was modified by setting the 
>     baseEepHeader.nonLinearTxFir to 0 to work around a crash in the ath10k-
>     firmware
>
> * ids to be used with the board file (ATH10K_BD_IE_BOARD_NAME in ath10k)
>
>   - BoardNames[0]: 'bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=PlasmaCloud-PA1200'
>     BoardLength[0]: 12064
>     BoardCRC32[0]: b587e755
>     BoardMD5[0]: 4129d301ee1a697af1fa311afcad6f87
>   - BoardNames[1]: 'bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=PlasmaCloud-PA1200'
>     BoardLength[1]: 12064
>     BoardCRC32[1]: 680fe0ec
>     BoardMD5[1]: 928c27310acfdef356ce6d6a5cdfc1f2
>
> * 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")

Thanks, added to QCA4019/hw1.0/board-2.bin:

New:


Changed:
bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=PlasmaCloud-PA1200
bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=PlasmaCloud-PA1200

Deleted:

0 board image(s) added, 2 changed, 0 deleted, 89 in total

https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/commit/648cebaa3ff588ca5de0a13cf3ca772a95813668

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