[OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

[John Crispin]

On 26/09/2018 17:14, John Crispin wrote:
>
> On 26/09/2018 17:12, Robert Marko wrote:
>> I understand the issues with never firmware breaking driver features,
>> and I dont have anything against using linux-firmware for the firmware
>> but board files there are too old.
>> For example board-2.bin for IPQ4019 was last updated on 15.02.2018.
>> and it does not contain any of the BDF that were upstreamed for
>> various boards in ipq40xx target.
>> I just checked and it only has BDF-s for the OpenMesh-A42 board while
>> ath10k-firmware one has BDFs for eight more boards that are OpenWrt
>> supported.
>> So this switch will effectively break the radios on most of ipq40xx 
>> boards.
>>
>> Only way around it is to again revert to using ipq-wifi for every board
>>
>> Regards
>> Robert Marko
>>
> which part of "please dont top post" was not clear, just for future 
> reference ?
>
>
>
>
>> On 26 September 2018 at 16:59, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
>>> On 26/09/2018 16:52, Robert Marko wrote:
>>>> What about all of the custom BDF-s that were upstreamed primarly for
>>>> IPQ40XX and lately various QCA99XX and QCA98XX radios?
>>>> By disabling ath10k-firmware and using the linux-firmware version 
>>>> we are
>>>> bound to have to use ipq-wifi again since firmware and board files are
>>>> really rarely updated in linux-firmware for QCA radios.
>>>>
>>> please dont top post ...
>>>>
>>>> On 26 September 2018 at 11:49, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com
>>>> <mailto:sgruszka at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 12:01:54AM +0200, Daniel Golle wrote:
>>>>      > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 11:15:14PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>>>      > > ...
>>>>      > > With that update I am fine with squashing the mac80211 
>>>> updates and
>>>>      > > pushing them to OpenWrt master.
>>>>      > >
>>>>      > > I checked the removed patches and could not find these two
>>>>      patches in
>>>>      > > the upstream kernel:
>>>>      > > *
>>>>      > >
>>>>
>>>> package/kernel/mac80211/patches/600-23-rt2x00-rt2800mmio-add-a-workaround-for-spurious-TX_F.patch 
>>>>
>>>>      >
>>>>      > Yes, this one should be dropped according to Stanislaw Gruszka,
>>>>      we've
>>>>      > discussed this earlier, but can't spot the thread right now.
>>>>
>>>>      Yes, please drop this one and also apply patches from:
>>>>
>>>> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/dangole.git;a=commit;h=ba8f5f0957e00e79af6ad1dbae7e649b720b2b01 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/dangole.git;a=commit;h=ba8f5f0957e00e79af6ad1dbae7e649b720b2b01> 
>>>>
>>>>      which changes whay how interrupts are handled.
>>>>
>>>>      The patches were tested by versious users with positive feedback,
>>>>      what is documented in:
>>>>      https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82751
>>>> <https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82751>
>>>>
>>>>      Thanks
>>>>      Stanislaw
>>>>
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>>>>
>>> using randomly chosen firmwares from a github repo is no real 
>>> alternative.
>>> the linux-firmware files seem to geed enough for most mayor distros. 
>>> the
>>> htt/wmi abi can change between drivers/firmware and newer FW with older
>>> drivers can cause all sorts of weird issues like the DFS false 
>>> positive one.
>>> the aim of this series is to get much closer to upstream in regards to
>>> wireless allowing us to work closer with upstream.
>>>
>>>      John
>>>
>>>
>>>
> We will have to send patches to linux-firmware to get them to update 
> the files.
>
>     John


as a temp fix we need to revert e6bd568051c7ca77a59783fe50203f6e2a427f19 
right ?

     John



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