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Message-ID: <1c5f5c93-db06-4490-af2e-bbce2d184c94@quicinc.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:20:50 +0800
From: Miaoqing Pan <quic_miaoqing@...cinc.com>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
CC: <kvalo@...nel.org>, <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>,
        <ath11k@...ts.infradead.org>, <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] wifi: ath11k: add firmware-name device tree property



On 10/22/2024 5:57 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 11:30:52AM +0800, Miaoqing Pan wrote:
>> QCA6698AQ uses different firmware/bdf/regdb with existing WCN6855
>> firmware, which is customized for IoE platforms. And the 'pci-device-id +
>> soc-hw-version + soc-hw-sub-version' may not be enough to identify the
>> correct firmware directory path.
> 
> Why is it so? What makes it so different from the existing platforms
> that you can not use WCN6855 firmware?

Just as I said, a new customized firmware for IoE devices.

> 
>>
>> The device tree allows "firmware-name" to define the firmware path,
>>      wifi@...0000 {
> 
> You are describing platform node, while the commit message talks about
> the PCIe devices. Could you please clarify, whether it is a PCIe device
> or an AHB device?

PCIe device. The change is for sa8775p/qcs8300 those non-AHB boards.

> 
>>          firmware-name = "QCA6698AQ";
> 
> Could we please follow the approach that has been defined in the commit
> 5abf259772df ("wifi: ath10k: support board-specific firmware
> overrides")? In other words, instead of creating another directory under
> ath11k, create a subdir under the WCN6855/hwN.M/ which contains your
> device-specific data.

Sure, thanks, will update.

> 
>>          status = "okay";
>>      };
>>
>> Tested-on: QCA6698AQ hw2.1 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-04402-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_IOE-1
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Miaoqing Pan <quic_miaoqing@...cinc.com>
> 
> P.S. please CC linux-arm-msm for future respins of this series or for
> all other submissions that concern board-specific DT data on MSM
> platforms.

ok.

> 
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.c | 12 ++++++++++++
>>   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/core.h | 11 +++--------
>>   2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
> 


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