Firmware 4 vs Firmware 6 for QCA6174 hw3.0

[Nicolò Sprea]

Thanks for the answer.
Is there any feature that uses only api 6?
If I want to downgrade to api 4, is there anything that I should pay
attention to?

On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 8:35 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> Nicolò Sprea <nsprea at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > What are the differences between firmware 4 and firmware 6 for QCA6174
> > hw3.0?
>
> They are just different firmware interface versions to maintain
> backwards compatibility:
>
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/firmware#firmware_api_versions
>
> The actual firmware versions are strings like 'WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00288-QCARMSWPZ-1'.
>
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA6174/hw3.0/4.4.1
>
> > Is there a release note?
>
> If you are asking releases notes for firmware releases, unfortunately no.
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