Re: [PATCH] ath10k: restore QCA9880-AR1A (v1) detection

From: Sebastian Gottschall <s.gottschall@newmedia-net.de>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: restore QCA9880-AR1A (v1) detection
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 16:20:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c25df199-bfe6-942a-8120-d818a8f387b2@newmedia-net.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a599bf9a-44ad-2d70-79dc-324e8dbeb1cd@candelatech.com>


Am 10.09.2019 um 16:11 schrieb Ben Greear:
>
>
> On 09/10/2019 06:51 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
>> the tplink archer c7 v1 indeed has this hw 1 version. but thats the 
>> only device i know comming with this chipset version
>> but the v1 has also a minipcie slot and is not soldered like all 
>> other revisions.  so i just replaced the card on my test device.
>> in addition we may ask ben grear if he is able to provide a v1 
>> firmware from his ct tree since the qca sourcecodes do contain support
>> for the v1 revision. but dont expect too much. there was a reason why 
>> v1 was never really on the market
>
> Hello,
>
> I don't think I can even build a v1 firmware if I wanted to, and I'd 
> much rather work on newer
> chips.  That v1 was an unstable wreck from the beginning, at least 
> with open-source driver.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
thats what i mean. the v1 is known to be a buggy chipset. i have still 
one but never played much with it. but owners of the old archer v7 v1 
often ask for support
>
>>
>> Am 10.09.2019 um 14:59 schrieb Tom Psyborg:
>>> On 10/09/2019, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>>>> (dropping stable list)
>>>>
>>>> Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> According to this very old post
>>>>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2013-July/000021.html
>>>>> seems like you've been misinformed on amount of these cards that were
>>>>> put out in the market.
>>>>>
>>>>> At least digipart only have >40000 units in stocks
>>>>> https://www.digipart.com/part/QCA9880-AR1A and other retailers
>>>>> probably few thousands more.
>>>>>
>>>>> With that large amount of cards I think it is justified to request
>>>>> firmware support for the chip. And probably a lot easier to make few
>>>>> firmware modifications than go hacking a bunch of API calls so it
>>>>> works with v2 firmware.
>>>> I'm very surprised that QCA9880 hw1.0 boards are still available, 
>>>> after
>>>> six years. Did you confirm that it really is hw1.0 and not just some
>>>> mixup with hardware ids or something like that?
>>> Print on the chip clearly says QCA9880-AR1A. ID same as for v2 - 003C.
>>>
>>>> old hw1.0 firmware to see if it works.
>>> I don't know which fw blob version that is. I could not find it
>>> online. All files are v2 related.
>>>
>>>> But if it's really is hw1.0 I doubt there will be any support for 
>>>> that.
>>>> I recommend to avoid hw1.0 altogether.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Kalle Valo
>>>>
>>> That would be too bad, even worse when you find out that
>>> qca-wifi-10.2.4.58.1 driver fails to load firmware too. The only one
>>> that works is qca-wifi that comes with tp-link firmware, some very
>>> early version 10.0.108 or somtehing like that that has no available
>>> sources..
>>>
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