Re: Upgrade firmware of QCA-9880

[Amato Carbonara <acarbonara13@gmail.com>]

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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