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

[Ben Greear]

Hello,

I looked at this briefly and it looks OK to me.  I did not test it out
though.

Thanks,
Ben

On 04/26/2020 05:26 AM, Álvaro Fernández Rojas wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> I've renamed the old full-htt-mgt firmwares and added the new ones as htt-mgt. This way the user can choose between both of them:
> https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/2963
>
> Best regards,
> Álvaro.
>
> El 24/04/2020 a las 20:48, Ben Greear escribió:
>> 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
>>
>
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Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
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