Upgrade firmware of QCA-9880

Upgrade firmware of QCA-9880

[Amato Carbonara]

I am currently running:
driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=3.13.0-49-generic firmware=10.1.467.2-1

I would like to update the firmware to 10.2.4 (latest release).  I am
unable to update the software by copying the file
"firmware-4.bin_10.2.4.48" from
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/10.2.4

I copy the file from github into /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/

I have kept the original file name, changed it to "firmware-4.bin" and
also changed it to "firmware-2.bin" but the firmware does not upgrade
to 10.2.4

Can you please assist in telling me how I go from 10.1.467.2-1 to 10.2.4?

Thank you,
Amato

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Re: Upgrade firmware of QCA-9880

[Michal Kazior]

On 22 April 2015 at 22:15, Amato Carbonara <acarbonara13@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am currently running:
> driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=3.13.0-49-generic firmware=10.1.467.2-1
>
> I would like to update the firmware to 10.2.4 (latest release).  I am
> unable to update the software by copying the file
> "firmware-4.bin_10.2.4.48" from
> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/10.2.4
>
> I copy the file from github into /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/
>
> I have kept the original file name, changed it to "firmware-4.bin" and
> also changed it to "firmware-2.bin" but the firmware does not upgrade
> to 10.2.4

10.2.4 uses a different firmware filename for a reason.

10.2.4 has some ABI differences compared to 10.1 and the driver must
be aware of them in order to be able to use it. You seem to have
kernel 3.13 (or at least ath10k from that kernel release for that
matter). This is pretty ancient. If you want to run 10.2.4 you need to
switch to kernel version 4.0 at least.

In case you're interested the older 10.2
(https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/10.2) requires
kernel 3.18 at least.


Michał

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Re: Upgrade firmware of QCA-9880

[Amato Carbonara]

Thank you!  I upgraded to kernel 4.0 and successfully installed
firmware 10.2.4.48

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> wrote:
> On 22 April 2015 at 22:15, Amato Carbonara <acarbonara13@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am currently running:
>> driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=3.13.0-49-generic firmware=10.1.467.2-1
>>
>> I would like to update the firmware to 10.2.4 (latest release).  I am
>> unable to update the software by copying the file
>> "firmware-4.bin_10.2.4.48" from
>> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/10.2.4
>>
>> I copy the file from github into /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/
>>
>> I have kept the original file name, changed it to "firmware-4.bin" and
>> also changed it to "firmware-2.bin" but the firmware does not upgrade
>> to 10.2.4
>
> 10.2.4 uses a different firmware filename for a reason.
>
> 10.2.4 has some ABI differences compared to 10.1 and the driver must
> be aware of them in order to be able to use it. You seem to have
> kernel 3.13 (or at least ath10k from that kernel release for that
> matter). This is pretty ancient. If you want to run 10.2.4 you need to
> switch to kernel version 4.0 at least.
>
> In case you're interested the older 10.2
> (https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/10.2) requires
> kernel 3.18 at least.
>
>
> Michał

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Re: Upgrade firmware of QCA-9880

[Amato Carbonara]

The bin files exist at:
https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master

Directions to install the drivers exist at:
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/firmware

I hope that helps.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM, bharath yadav
<uddandibharath7@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.,
>
>    How to build ath10k driver from kernel version 4.0 ,I got confused with
> that it is some what different from other stable releases if run make it is
> creating some image.there is no defconfig option available in that
>
> Please tell me how to build ath10k from kernel 4.0 i am new to linux
>
> Thanks
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Amato Carbonara <acarbonara13@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thank you!  I upgraded to kernel 4.0 and successfully installed
>> firmware 10.2.4.48
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On 22 April 2015 at 22:15, Amato Carbonara <acarbonara13@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> I am currently running:
>> >> driver=ath10k_pci driverversion=3.13.0-49-generic firmware=10.1.467.2-1
>> >>
>> >> I would like to update the firmware to 10.2.4 (latest release).  I am
>> >> unable to update the software by copying the file
>> >> "firmware-4.bin_10.2.4.48" from
>> >> https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/10.2.4
>> >>
>> >> I copy the file from github into /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/
>> >>
>> >> I have kept the original file name, changed it to "firmware-4.bin" and
>> >> also changed it to "firmware-2.bin" but the firmware does not upgrade
>> >> to 10.2.4
>> >
>> > 10.2.4 uses a different firmware filename for a reason.
>> >
>> > 10.2.4 has some ABI differences compared to 10.1 and the driver must
>> > be aware of them in order to be able to use it. You seem to have
>> > kernel 3.13 (or at least ath10k from that kernel release for that
>> > matter). This is pretty ancient. If you want to run 10.2.4 you need to
>> > switch to kernel version 4.0 at least.
>> >
>> > In case you're interested the older 10.2
>> > (https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/10.2) requires
>> > kernel 3.18 at least.
>> >
>> >
>> > Michał
>>
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