Return-path: Received: from alexa-out.qualcomm.com ([129.46.98.28]:60147 "EHLO alexa-out.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751966AbdLVQVh (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Dec 2017 11:21:37 -0500 From: Kalle Valo To: Gary Bisson CC: Alagu Sankar , "erik.stromdahl@gmail.com" , "silexcommon@gmail.com" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" , "ath10k@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] SDIO support for ath10k Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 16:21:31 +0000 Message-ID: <87a7ya91is.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (sfid-20171222_172141_521752_E7BE4828) References: <1506793068-27445-1-git-send-email-alagusankar@silex-india.com> <20171005151205.cymirl4wikuw4f7q@t450s.lan> <59D66ACA.60801@silex-india.com> <20171006111613.ulatu65gvmgrr2ie@t450s.lan> <20171218161958.yi5ldohhdf2hadfy@t450s.lan> In-Reply-To: <20171218161958.yi5ldohhdf2hadfy@t450s.lan> (Gary Bisson's message of "Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:19:58 +0100") Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Gary Bisson writes: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 01:16:13PM +0200, Gary Bisson wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 10:54:26PM +0530, Alagu Sankar wrote: >> > On 05-10-2017 20:42, Gary Bisson wrote: >> > >=20 >> > > First of all, thank you for sharing your patches, this will be a ver= y >> > > nice improvement to have SDIO QCA9377 working with ath10k. >> > >=20 >> > > I've tried your series with Nitrogen7 [1] platform which is supporte= d in >> > > mainline already. It uses BD-SDMAC [2] which uses the same module as= the >> > > SX-SDMAC. >> > >=20 >> > > Below are some questions/remarks I have after the testing. >> > >=20 >> > > Quick question on the firmware, is it the one from Kalle's repositor= y?[3] >> > >=20 >> > > If so, where does this firmware comes from? Is 00061 the firmware >> > > version? So far I've only seen up to v0.0.0.60, see qcacld-2.0 outpu= t: >> > > Host SW:4.5.20.037, FW:0.0.0.60, HW:QCA9377_REV1_1 >> > >> > Yes, it is from >> > https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/tree/master/QCA9377/hw1.0/unt= ested. >> > I have also used custom firmware from QCA/Silex as used in qcacld-2.0 = driver >> > without any issue. You need to use the firmware merger tool from >> > https://github.com/erstrom/linux-ath/wiki/Firmware to combine the >> > qwlan30.bin and otp30.bin to generate the firmware-sdio.bin. >>=20 >> Good to know, thanks. Maybe Kalle can tell us more about the firmware >> itself, what's the difference between the version 0.0.0.60 and 0.0.0.61? > > Any update on this, is there a release notes for this 0.0.0.61 firmware? Unfortunately I don't have any changelogs for the firmware releases. > As a FYI, I've tried your ath10k patches (along with a few backported > patches from Erik) on the NXP-fork of 4.9 kernel [1]. > > I confirm that it provides pretty decent performances: > - ath10k: 110Mbit/s > - qcacld-2.0: 125Mbit/s > > Here are some details about the setup: > - TPLink AC router > - Nitrogen7 (i.MX7) with BD-SDMAC > - Kernel 4.9.68 (NXP fork [1]) > - FW 0.0.0.61 from ath10k-firmware repo Nice, thanks for the report. This is always helpful. --=20 Kalle Valo=