[OpenWrt-Devel] New ath10k-ct firmware available.

[Ben Greear]

For the wave-2, there is now a new variant:  htt-mgt-community (vs the old full-htt-mgt-community)
the non-full one (hence forth 'diet') compiles out a lot of firmware features that ath10k does not use (and/or which I
consider unimportant).  This saves a lot of resources and lets one configure more stations/vdevs/etc
using fwcfg.

I also tuned the 9886/8 and 4019 firmware to make better use of memory.  With proper fwcfg,
the 9888 supports 200 stations and the 4019 supports 162.  I have not yet fully tested this
of course, but will be doing so over the coming days.  I did previously test 228 total stations
on a Linksys MR8300 (aka EA8300) and it did fine in a torture test.

My suggestion is to use the diet compile in place of the 'full-htt-mgt' one, but another option is
to give the user another option to pick they file they want in the openwrt makefile.

I am hoping someone will be able to do the openwrt patch, here is the raw info below.


988x
8b4c99253aa309d35f2e060c190091b8db1b84dbda06a6a15c83ac0f9a938126  firmware-2-ct-full-community-22.bin.lede.018
a7168916d6aa5e4d7858f8b620c0c980c76d03f390929db6f4077685ce2051e7  firmware-2-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-22.bin.lede.018
/home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
9887
459692deb186a63ab8eeddb7ad5d54779266e68ca686e7c46062554db6dca12b  firmware-2-ct-full-community-22.bin.lede.018
fd126a457d0927d0c8ea10d66ef5b67d5e1e0741f8692bb3016bb602d0af3098  firmware-2-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-22.bin.lede.018
/home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
9980
cf26eb37524de54af51fe9b2efffc85e0e70ab849e8607ef63ce5a8ecffeaa42  firmware-5-ct-full-community-12.bin-lede.018
e9737538d7379e13ad4e4c8c519a63659b5e34a35455ed9ac4399ae8097caabc  firmware-5-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
4d4f74afca487d452f244cd48304cf9710d8941eb97a6346a949ed6b6877d657  firmware-5-ct-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
/home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
9984
a6b3d66efe640a430a837f238e91eddcd423eed6b887d3ae19716d87a71fd0b1  firmware-5-ct-full-community-12.bin-lede.018
96060227e372b3b210badccbe6b0bd75d9a35335a7a0f2966964e9e89f66b00f  firmware-5-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
ee593fb5724d75c372de02ac7894e1630ee9f909fcb2e2bbf17aadef67cb9d43  firmware-5-ct-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
/home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
4019
46d8f8f1e780813299dc8780eedcfceda103c6b4d8908589ad1adbef921714c0  firmware-5-ct-full-community-12.bin-lede.018
d884624fc34f4b5de7a3ec0534627c46cea25fca45657f3a2f6bb85f6c5893d7  firmware-5-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
51fe06f66365771647d16039cca8b541de3d642c45271977a4cfd433c2c5d45b  firmware-5-ct-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
/home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
9888
d01f1429aaf0bfac07eee3547e5821d19136840b2f983e75e76979a5ac19b6f0  firmware-5-ct-full-community-12.bin-lede.018
68c42f8e0dcf77f18d4813ac93174bf06ff5cf5aa4f69befe7f35f9fae1de1e3  firmware-5-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
6c692141155f5bb74c0117553d5d48ff2aaba73bd4d5e90a5044a5e2ec0faab0  firmware-5-ct-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
/home/greearb/candela_html/downloads

Example fwcfg files for 9888 and 4019 using the diet htt mgt builds:

root at OpenWrt:/lib/firmware/ath10k# cat fwcfg-pci-0000\:01\:00.0.txt
# For 9888
vdevs = 8
peers = 202
active_peers = 202
stations = 202
rate_ctrl_objs = 7
regdom = 840
#fwname = firmware-5-htt-mgt-b.bin
fwver = 5
nohwcrypt = 0
ct_sta_mode = 0
tx_desc = 2200
#max_nss = 3
tids = 450
skid_limit = 360
max_amsdus = 3

root at OpenWrt:/lib/firmware/ath10k# cat fwcfg-ahb-a000000.wifi.txt
vdevs = 8
peers = 164
active_peers = 164
stations = 164
rate_ctrl_objs = 7
regdom = 840
#fwname = firmware-5-htt-mgt-b.bin
fwver = 5
nohwcrypt = 0
ct_sta_mode = 0
tx_desc = 2000
#max_nss = 3
tids = 260
skid_limit = 360
max_amsdus = 3

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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