From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan <mohammed@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/21] ath10k: support CT firmware flag.
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 07:52:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5731F5BF.7080307@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160510072005.GE25626@atheros-ThinkPad-T61>
On 05/10/2016 12:20 AM, Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 04:11:09PM -0700, greearb@candelatech.com wrote:
>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>>
>> Add placeholder so CT firmware can more easily co-exist with upstream
>> kernel.
>
> [shafi] nitpick: good to provide an expansion in commit log as well, so that
> if we can easily figure out in git log alone, rather than going through
> the change and suggesting that it supports more vif's etc
CT firmware supports a great deal of things, such as IBSS, tx-rate reporting,
more control over tx-buffer allocation, rate-ctrl improvements and so forth.
I have another hundred or so patches that can enable and take advantage
of this sort of thing, but in the past, there has been no desire to allow
these patches upstream, so I am trying to feed some of the least controversial
patches first in case attitudes have changed.
If you would like to see my full patch tree, it is here:
http://dmz2.candelatech.com/?p=linux-4.4.dev.y/.git;a=summary
And, you can clone it:
git clone git://dmz2.candelatech.com/linux-4.4.dev.y
With regard to the patches in this series to dump the BSS regions and similar, I would
be happy to share my packaging script with QCA folks so they can add that info to their
own firmware. With BSS and Stack dumps, you can walk back through null-pointer exceptions
in the firmware and get a full backtrace instead of just the last call location. This means
you can remove a huge number of ASSERTS, which frees up IRAM and overall makes the code
faster.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-10 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 23:10 [PATCH 00/21] ath10k patches, generic and CT firmware related greearb
2016-05-09 23:10 ` [PATCH 01/21] ath10k: Fix crash related to printing features greearb
2016-05-09 23:10 ` [PATCH 02/21] ath10k: fix typo in logging message greearb
2016-05-09 23:10 ` [PATCH 03/21] ath10k: Support setting debug mask from driver code greearb
2016-05-11 10:40 ` Michal Kazior
2016-05-11 15:10 ` Ben Greear
2016-05-09 23:10 ` [PATCH 04/21] ath10k: rate-limit packet tx errors greearb
2016-05-09 23:10 ` [PATCH 05/21] ath10k: save firmware debug log messages greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 06/21] ath10k: save firmware stacks upon firmware crash greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 07/21] ath10k: save firmware RAM and ROM BSS sections on crash greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 08/21] ath10k: make firmware text debug messages more verbose greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 09/21] ath10k: print fw debug messages in hex greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 10/21] ath10k: support logging ath10k_info as KERN_DEBUG greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 11/21] ath10k: add fw-powerup-fail to ethtool stats greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 12/21] ath10k: Support up to 64 vdevs greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 13/21] ath10k: Document cycle count related counters greearb
2016-05-11 10:24 ` Michal Kazior
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 14/21] ath10k: Add tx/rx bytes, cycle counters to ethtool stats greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 15/21] ath10k: support CT firmware flag greearb
2016-05-10 7:20 ` Mohammed Shafi Shajakhan
2016-05-10 14:52 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 16/21] ath10k: Support 32+ stations greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 17/21] ath10k: Enable detecting failure to install key in firmware (CT) greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 18/21] ath10k: Note limitation on beaconing vdevs greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 19/21] ath10k: Enable adhoc mode for CT firmware greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 20/21] ath10k: read firmware crash over ioread32 if CE fails greearb
2016-05-09 23:11 ` [PATCH 21/21] ath10k: Read dbglog buffers over register ping-pong greearb
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