Re: RTL8723BS driver doesn't work for,me but I can help testing

[Tobias Baumann <017623705678@o2online.de>]

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Am 21.05.2020 um 13:17 schrieb Tobias Baumann:
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> Hi Martin
>
> first of all sorry for my short english writing
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> Am 19.05.2020 um 22:16 schrieb Martin Blumenstingl:
>> Hi Tobias,
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 8:21 AM Tobias Baumann<017623705678@o2online.de>  wrote:
>>> good morning
>>>
>>> i got the new image from oleg(balbes150) 20200518 RC5  and some more
>>> feedback
>>>
>>> with my patch and oleg RC5 hotstart(shutdown now)  do not work with my
>>> box ( wlan goes back to sleep mode always)
>> I'm not sure what you mean here.
>> if you run "shutdown now" then the system does not shut down and only
>> wifi goes to sleep mode?
>
> i meant  that after a reboot with "shutdown now" my box restart but 
> the wifi chip is back in sleep mode ,  while the wifi chip was online 
> befor the restart .
>
>
>>> with my patch chance  1 of 5 till 1 of 3 that my wlan is up and not
>>> sleep from cold start
>>>
>>> with oleg chance 1 of 2 till 1of 3 from cold start that wlan is up  .
>>> (maybe because of phandle order?)
>>>
>>> i thing there is maybe a timming problem between  wlan dis , sdio  data
>>> and  host wake up wlan .
>> the power sequence driver supports the following two properties, see [0]:
>> - post-power-on-delay-ms
>> - power-off-delay-us
>>
>> Those are not set, meaning no delay is applied.
>> For reference, these are the delays which are used on the Endless Mini
>> (which also has a RTL8723BS module): [1]
>> Do you know more about these delays (whether they are needed and how
>> long they are supposed to be)?
>
>  i read also the AP6330 and BCM4330 Datasheet  for both of them is a 
> start order inside the datashet ( i think that RTL8723BS should have 
> same timming) . the time between 32k clock and WLAN_dis should be more 
> than minimum 2 clock cycle (1/32kHZ * 2cycle = 0.06ms )
>
> also that AP6330 has most identical  pinout as RTL8723BS ( i did not 
> get the pinout of BCM4330 because datasheet only has information to 
> the chip and not the small extra pcb where the chip is mount)
>
> on Android 4.4 my box told me that GPIOAO_6 ist chip enable and 
> GPIOX_11 ist wlan enable
>
> mybe a clue is that in the HArdkernel S805 Datasheet the GPIOAO_6 is 
> also a 32k clock  output (site 42 table 10 Func1 maybe  (but i also 
> found some Dts file from old S805 RTL8723bs box they use only GPIOX_11 
> and powerPin2 was comment out )
>
> ->
>
> i have another question , do we use the same wifi.c file for the 
> meson8m2 boxes as for endless mini ? i have taken a closer look at the 
> file and the two delay information you are mention are not  in the 
> wifi. c is neither a function nor an instance, it just takes two fixed 
> values "mdelay(200)" line 156 , furthermore we ignore the output level 
> of wifi_power_gpio2 and automatically set it to "1" line 378 , so it 
> is important which of the two pins is passed to the header file first 
> (translate with DEEPL)
>
> <-
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>
>
>
>>> it could be that GPIOAO_6 is the host wake up wlan ? is it possible to
>>> change the activation order for the gpio pins by change it in dts ?
>> please check my previous mails. I think that GPIOX_21 is the wifi host
>> wakeup pin because it is marked as "input" on the 3.10 kernel.
>> you can change the order of the GPIOs inside the sdio_pwrseq node, but
>> all GPIOs are managed together (meaning there's virtually no delay
>> between enabling the first and the second one).
>> I am not sure if using an MMC power sequence is the right thing to do,
>> because the card is detected for me regardless of whether GPIOX_11 is
>> HIGH or LOW. The RTL8723BS driver currently does not manage any GPIOs.
>>
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> [0]https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/c477ebe21fabe0010a2ed324ce3a1762c757d867/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mmc/mmc-pwrseq-simple.txt
>> [1]https://github.com/endlessm/linux-meson/blob/4c76999c5c707fba9c390466efca093c3befa908/drivers/amlogic/wifi/wifi_dt.c#L153
>
> You are right the chip has only wifi wake host and that should be 
> GPIOX_21 as input ; maybe on your box the pin is alway high on the 
> board  ( direkt an 3.3V verdrahtet)
>
>
> thanks for the information
>
>
> Tobias
>

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