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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
To: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Cc: kvalo@codeaurora.org, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	ath10k@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: support bus and device specific API 1 BDF selection
Date: Fri,  6 May 2022 06:19:52 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <165181799100.13324.13296205363993224857.kvalo@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211009221711.2315352-1-robimarko@gmail.com>

Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com> wrote:

> Some ath10k IPQ40xx devices like the MikroTik hAP ac2 and ac3 require the
> BDF-s to be extracted from the device storage instead of shipping packaged
> API 2 BDF-s.
> 
> This is required as MikroTik has started shipping boards that require BDF-s
> to be updated, as otherwise their WLAN performance really suffers.
> This is however impossible as the devices that require this are release
> under the same revision and its not possible to differentiate them from
> devices using the older BDF-s.
> 
> In OpenWrt we are extracting the calibration data during runtime and we are
> able to extract the BDF-s in the same manner, however we cannot package the
> BDF-s to API 2 format on the fly and can only use API 1 to provide BDF-s on
> the fly.
> This is an issue as the ath10k driver explicitly looks only for the
> board.bin file and not for something like board-bus-device.bin like it does
> for pre-cal data.
> Due to this we have no way of providing correct BDF-s on the fly, so lets
> extend the ath10k driver to first look for BDF-s in the
> board-bus-device.bin format, for example: board-ahb-a800000.wifi.bin
> If that fails, look for the default board file name as defined previously.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo@quicinc.com>

Patch applied to ath-next branch of ath.git, thanks.

f2a7064a78b2 ath10k: support bus and device specific API 1 BDF selection

-- 
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20211009221711.2315352-1-robimarko@gmail.com/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches


      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-06  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-09 22:17 [PATCH] ath10k: support bus and device specific API 1 BDF selection Robert Marko
2021-10-14 11:54 ` Christian Lamparter
2021-10-14 12:01   ` Robert Marko
2021-10-14 13:23     ` Christian Lamparter
2021-12-07 18:06 ` Kalle Valo
2021-12-07 18:09   ` Kalle Valo
2021-12-08 12:21   ` Robert Marko
2021-12-08 14:07     ` Christian Lamparter
2021-12-17 12:06       ` Robert Marko
2021-12-17 12:25         ` Thibaut
2022-02-02 18:49           ` Robert Marko
2022-02-16 13:38             ` Robert Marko
2022-02-16 21:19               ` Christian Lamparter
2022-02-16 21:55                 ` Thibaut
2022-05-03 15:58                   ` Robert Marko
2022-05-04  7:48                     ` Kalle Valo
2022-05-06  6:19 ` Kalle Valo [this message]

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