Return-path: Received: from wolverine01.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.254]:11387 "EHLO wolverine01.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752414AbcFCQKl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2016 12:10:41 -0400 From: "Valo, Kalle" To: Rajkumar Manoharan CC: Ben Greear , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "Manoharan, Rajkumar" , "ath10k@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ath10k: remove 10.1 firmware support Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 16:09:55 +0000 Message-ID: <87shwuuuct.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (sfid-20160603_181044_786772_9E539C0B) References: <20160603153328.11947-1-rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com> <20160603153328.11947-2-rmanohar@qti.qualcomm.com> <5751A6D5.7080901@candelatech.com> <743182bcbd1efbdb576bcc51b0215300@codeaurora.org> In-Reply-To: <743182bcbd1efbdb576bcc51b0215300@codeaurora.org> (Rajkumar Manoharan's message of "Fri, 03 Jun 2016 21:25:00 +0530") Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Rajkumar Manoharan writes: > On 2016-06-03 21:18, Ben Greear wrote: >> On 06/03/2016 08:33 AM, Rajkumar Manoharan wrote: >>> Earlier qca9888 device was brought up using 10.1 firmware and then >>> later all firmware fixes and new features are migrated to 10.2/10.2.x >>> firmware branch. As all of 10.1 funtionalities are supported in 10.2 >>> based firmware, removing 10.1 firmware support for qca9888 device. >> >> Oh please do not do this. My 10.1 firmware works very nicely, >> and out-performs 10.2 in my testing. Lots of people use my firmware >> when they need IBSS support or other features not found in >> official firmware, so it is not just me that will have >> problems if you remove this support. >> > Aah.. I thought CT firmware is 10.2 based. Since most of firmware bug > fixes and enhancements are integrated into 10.2 based firmware, we > thought of get rid of 10.1 firmware to reduce code size. Moreover > existing 10.1 official firmware has known issues. Yeah, we really want to reduce the amount firmware branches to support in ath10k. > Is it possible to upgrade CT firmware to 10.2 WMI/HTT interfaces? That's a good idea. That shouldn't be too hard, right? I don't think HTT needs any changes, but for WMI few commands and ids need to be changed. -- Kalle Valo