[PATCH RFC 0/4] wifi: ath10k: support board-specific firmware overrides

[Jeff Johnson]

On 1/30/2024 8:38 AM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On WCN3990 platforms actual firmware, wlanmdsp.mbn, is sideloaded to the
> modem DSP via the TQFTPserv. These MBN files are signed by the device
> vendor, can only be used with the particular SoC or device.
> 
> Unfortunately different firmware versions come with different features.
> For example firmware for SDM845 doesn't use single-chan-info-per-channel
> feature, while firmware for QRB2210 / QRB4210 requires that feature.
> 
> Allow board DT files to override the subdir of the fw dir used to lookup
> the firmware-N.bin file decribing corresponding WiFi firmware.
> For example, adding firmware-name = "qrb4210" property will make the
> driver look for the firmware-N.bin first in ath10k/WCN3990/hw1.0/qrb4210
> directory and then fallback to the default ath10k/WCN3990/hw1.0 dir.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov at linaro.org>
> ---
> Dmitry Baryshkov (4):
>       dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath10k: describe firmware-name property
>       wifi: ath10k: support board-specific firmware overrides
>       arm64: dts: qcom: qrb2210-rb1: add firmware-name qualifier to WiFi node
>       arm64: dts: qcom: qrb4210-rb1: add firmware-name qualifier to WiFi node
> 
>  .../devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.yaml         |  6 ++++++
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb2210-rb1.dts                      |  1 +
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb4210-rb2.dts                      |  1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c                        | 11 ++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h                        |  2 ++
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c                        |  3 +++
>  6 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 596764183be8ebb13352b281a442a1f1151c9b06
> change-id: 20240130-wcn3990-firmware-path-7a05a0cf8107
> 
> Best regards,
This series looks OK to me, but would like Kalle to review as well