netdev - [PATCH RFC 0/4] wifi: ath10k: support board-specific firmware overrides

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Message-Id: <20240130-wcn3990-firmware-path-v1-0-826b93202964@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:38:36 +0200
From: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>, Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
 Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, 
 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, 
 Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>, Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>, 
 Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>
Cc: ath10k@...ts.infradead.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, 
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/4] wifi: ath10k: support board-specific firmware
 overrides

On WCN3990 platforms actual firmware, wlanmdsp.mbn, is sideloaded to the
modem DSP via the TQFTPserv. These MBN files are signed by the device
vendor, can only be used with the particular SoC or device.

Unfortunately different firmware versions come with different features.
For example firmware for SDM845 doesn't use single-chan-info-per-channel
feature, while firmware for QRB2210 / QRB4210 requires that feature.

Allow board DT files to override the subdir of the fw dir used to lookup
the firmware-N.bin file decribing corresponding WiFi firmware.
For example, adding firmware-name = "qrb4210" property will make the
driver look for the firmware-N.bin first in ath10k/WCN3990/hw1.0/qrb4210
directory and then fallback to the default ath10k/WCN3990/hw1.0 dir.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
---
Dmitry Baryshkov (4):
      dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath10k: describe firmware-name property
      wifi: ath10k: support board-specific firmware overrides
      arm64: dts: qcom: qrb2210-rb1: add firmware-name qualifier to WiFi node
      arm64: dts: qcom: qrb4210-rb1: add firmware-name qualifier to WiFi node

 .../devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath10k.yaml         |  6 ++++++
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb2210-rb1.dts                      |  1 +
 arch/arm64/boot/dts/qcom/qrb4210-rb2.dts                      |  1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.c                        | 11 ++++++++++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/core.h                        |  2 ++
 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/snoc.c                        |  3 +++
 6 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
---
base-commit: 596764183be8ebb13352b281a442a1f1151c9b06
change-id: 20240130-wcn3990-firmware-path-7a05a0cf8107

Best regards,
-- 
Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>