kvalo firmware confusion

kvalo firmware confusion

[Joerg Pommnitz]

Hello all,
I'm confused about the git firmware situation for QCA988X.

I'm on linux 3.18.24. The driver want's to load firmware-2.bin. 

The suggested download site according to https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware
is https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/

The content of https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0 is:

-rw-r--r--	board.bin	2116
-rw-r--r--	firmware-4.bin	241892
-rw-r--r--	firmware-5.bin	245312
-rw-r--r--	notice_ath10k_firmware-4.txt	13890
-rw-r--r--	notice_ath10k_firmware-5.txt	15594


No firmware-2.bin. What's going on? The onliest firmware-2.bin currently available seems to be
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/QCA988X/main/firmware-2.bin_999.999.0.636

Is this the one to use?
 
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Re: kvalo firmware confusion

[Kalle Valo]

Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello all,
> I'm confused about the git firmware situation for QCA988X.
>
> I'm on linux 3.18.24. The driver want's to load firmware-2.bin. 

With that old version of ath10k you should use 10.1 branch:

https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA988X/10.1

But I really recommend using newer ath10k, for example by using
backports projects.

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Re: kvalo firmware confusion

[Joerg Pommnitz]

Thanks for the clarification.
Somebody should update 



https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k/firmware

It states, that 10.2 is for 3.18.
 -- Regards       Joerg



> Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> schrieb am 16:50 Dienstag, 24.November 2015:
> > Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>  Hello all,
>>  I'm confused about the git firmware situation for QCA988X.
>> 
>>  I'm on linux 3.18.24. The driver want's to load firmware-2.bin. 
> 
> With that old version of ath10k you should use 10.1 branch:
> 
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA988X/10.1
> 
> But I really recommend using newer ath10k, for example by using
> backports projects.
> 
> -- 
> Kalle Valo
> 

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Re: kvalo firmware confusion

[Joerg Pommnitz]

And a little bit of nagging: the current driver is still broken for me.
See http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2015-November/006494.html

 -- Regards       Joerg



> Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> schrieb am 16:51 Dienstag, 24.November 2015:
> > Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>  Hello all,
>>  I'm confused about the git firmware situation for QCA988X.
>> 
>>  I'm on linux 3.18.24. The driver want's to load firmware-2.bin. 
> 
> With that old version of ath10k you should use 10.1 branch:
> 
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA988X/10.1
> 
> But I really recommend using newer ath10k, for example by using
> backports projects.
> 
> -- 
> Kalle Valo
> 

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Re: kvalo firmware confusion

[Kalle Valo]

Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com> writes:

> Thanks for the clarification.
> Somebody should update 
>
>
>
> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k/firmware
>
> It states, that 10.2 is for 3.18.

I just checked, 3.18 should try firmware-3.bin first and hence it should
support 10.2. So the wiki page is correct.

Is your version of ath10k trying to download firmware-3.bin first? If
yes, you should be able to use 10.2 firmware.

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Re: kvalo firmware confusion

[Joerg Pommnitz]

It complains about not being able to find firmware-3.bin. I'm not sure about the
order. I'll try again with firmware-3.bin in the firmware directory.

 -- Regards       Joerg



> Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> schrieb am 9:21 Mittwoch, 25.November 2015:
> > Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>>  Thanks for the clarification.
>>  Somebody should update 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k/firmware
>> 
>>  It states, that 10.2 is for 3.18.
> 
> I just checked, 3.18 should try firmware-3.bin first and hence it should
> support 10.2. So the wiki page is correct.
> 
> Is your version of ath10k trying to download firmware-3.bin first? If
> yes, you should be able to use 10.2 firmware.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Kalle Valo
> 

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Re: kvalo firmware confusion

[Kalle Valo]

Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com> writes:

> It complains about not being able to find firmware-3.bin. I'm not sure about the
> order. I'll try again with firmware-3.bin in the firmware directory.

It should try firmware-3.bin first and then try firmware-2.bin.

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