netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] wifi: ath10k: support board-specific firmware overrides

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Message-ID: <c2bd01d1-8ddf-44b8-b5bc-860cc9754b76@quicinc.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 16:40:57 -0700
From: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@...cinc.com>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>,
        Kalle Valo
	<kvalo@...nel.org>,
        "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>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski
	<krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v2 0/4] wifi: ath10k: support board-specific firmware
 overrides

On 3/29/2024 9:47 PM, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 at 10:16, Dmitry Baryshkov
> <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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>
>> ---
>> Changes in v2:
>> - Fixed the comment about the default board name being NULL (Kalle)
>> - Expanded commit message to provide examples for firmware paths (Kalle)
>> - Added a note regarding board-2.bin to the commit message (Kalle)
>> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240130-wcn3990-firmware-path-v1-0-826b93202964@linaro.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
> 
> Kalle, Jeff, is there anything pending on me on this series?
> 
Nothing from me -- this is outside my area of expertise so I'm deferring to Kalle.

Kalle?