ath10k-firmware: QCA4019 hw1.0: Update 8devices Habanero specific BDFs

[Robert Marko]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2022 at 14:25, Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Robert Marko <robimarko at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I am currently working on the 8devices Habanero support for
> > 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.
> >
> > This update improves 5GHz radio.
> >
> > Now to the questions from the wiki page [1]:
> >
> > * description for what hardware this is:
> >
> >   - it is a QCA4019 based module
> >   - one QCA4019 radio is used as 2.4GHz radio
> >   - one QCA4019 radio is used as 5GHz radio
> >
> > * origin of the board file (did you create it yourself or where you
> >   downloaded)
> >
> >   - it was pulled from the 8devices OpenWrt fork
> >   - it is based on latest version
> >
> > * 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=16,variant=8devices-Habanero
> >      md5sum:
> >      64d0817da715875483d323f2bb0c898c
> >
> >   + bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=8devices-Habanero
> >      md5sum:
> >      56202ea33e96f16c65b75d464451c251
> >
> > * 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")
>
> Do note that it seems that only one board file contents was actually
> changed, was that on purpose?

Yes, only the 5GHz radio had an update.
8devices released new BDF-s last year that fix the thermal readings.

Do you mind if I send the updated ones upstream?

Regards,
Robert
>
> Thanks, added to QCA4019/hw1.0/board-2.bin:
>
> New:
>
>
> Changed:
> bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=8devices-Habanero
>
> Deleted:
>
> 0 board image(s) added, 1 changed, 0 deleted, 60 in total
>
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/commit/1fad4d7a4aab0bb7daaabd5324c2b87e438d9bac
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