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From:   Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 10 Sep 2019 14:59:40 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: restore QCA9880-AR1A (v1) detection
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
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On 10/09/2019, Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> (dropping stable list)
>
> Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> According to this very old post
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath10k/2013-July/000021.html
>> seems like you've been misinformed on amount of these cards that were
>> put out in the market.
>>
>> At least digipart only have >40000 units in stocks
>> https://www.digipart.com/part/QCA9880-AR1A and other retailers
>> probably few thousands more.
>>
>> With that large amount of cards I think it is justified to request
>> firmware support for the chip. And probably a lot easier to make few
>> firmware modifications than go hacking a bunch of API calls so it
>> works with v2 firmware.
>
> I'm very surprised that QCA9880 hw1.0 boards are still available, after
> six years. Did you confirm that it really is hw1.0 and not just some
> mixup with hardware ids or something like that?

Print on the chip clearly says QCA9880-AR1A. ID same as for v2 - 003C.

> old hw1.0 firmware to see if it works.

I don't know which fw blob version that is. I could not find it
online. All files are v2 related.

>
> But if it's really is hw1.0 I doubt there will be any support for that.
> I recommend to avoid hw1.0 altogether.
>
> --
> Kalle Valo
>

That would be too bad, even worse when you find out that
qca-wifi-10.2.4.58.1 driver fails to load firmware too. The only one
that works is qca-wifi that comes with tp-link firmware, some very
early version 10.0.108 or somtehing like that that has no available
sources..