linux-kernel - Re: wl1251 & mac address & calibration data

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Message-ID: <20161220172134.GJ4920@atomide.com>
Date:   Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:21:34 -0800
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>,
        Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
        Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>,
        "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>,
        Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@...to.com>,
        Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@...il.com>,
        Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: wl1251 & mac address & calibration data

* Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> [161220 09:12]:
> Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> writes:
> 
> > * Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org> [161220 03:47]:
> >> Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > On 18-12-2016 13:09, Pali Rohár wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> File wl1251-nvs.bin is provided by linux-firmware package and contains 
> >> >> default data which should be overriden by model specific calibrated 
> >> >> data.
> >> >
> >> > Ah. Someone thought it was a good idea to provide the "one ring to rule
> >> > them all". Nice.
> >> 
> >> Yes, that was a bad idea. wl1251-nvs.bin in linux-firmware.git should be
> >> renamed to wl1251-nvs.bin.example, or something like that, as it should
> >> be only installed to a real system only if there's no real calibration
> >> data available (only for developers to use, not real users).
> >
> > Makes sense to me. Note that with the recent changes to wlcore, we can
> > now easily provide board specific calibration firmware simply by adding a
> > new compatible value. So for n900, we could have something like
> > compatible = "ti,wl1251-n900" and have it point to n900 specific calibration
> > file wl1251-nvs-n900.bin. Of course this won't help with the mac address,
> > or any of the device specific data..
> >
> > That is assuming the calibration values are the same for each similar
> > device and don't have to be generated for each device. And naturally wl1251
> > needs simlar changes done to make use of devices specific calibration files.
> 
> No, these are unique per each sold device. Every N900 was calibrated at
> the factory and they all have different calibration data which is stored
> to the flash. So when N900 boots (and in _every_ boot) it has to load
> the calibration data from the flash and provide it to the wl1251 driver
> somehow.

Urgh, OK. So much for that idea then.

Thanks,

Tony