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From:   Equipe Soft <equipe.soft.isere@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:05:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: Is iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode a debug firmware?
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Hello, do you have any news about the issue?
Best regards.
@team
Le ven. 6 mars 2020 =C3=A0 10:33, Equipe Soft <equipe.soft.isere@gmail.com>=
 a =C3=A9crit :
>
> Hello,
> we are using backport-iwlwifi core45 drivers and latest AC9260
> firmware binary blob:
> latest firmware available in Intel iwlwifi firmware fork:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/linux-firmware.gi=
t/commit/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode?id=3D4bebf45872a9818a17e20791185=
00030a8fa377a
> 2019-11-28 iwlwifi: update FWs to core47-142 release
>
> At runtime, we noticed these log traces:
> iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Found debug destination: EXTERNAL_DRAM
> iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Found debug configuration: 0
> iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Allocated 0x00400000 bytes for firmware monitor.
> So it seems that it is a debug firmware...
>
> Q0) can you please confirm that we can safely use this debug firmware
> in our product ?
> Q1) is debug mode deliberately enabled in newer firmware or is it an
> error (maybe like forgotten to disable it) ?
> Q2) is there an impact on performance with this debug firmware ? WiFi
> speed/throughput may be reduced or not ?
> Q3) moreover, can you please confirm whether or not WoWLAN (aka
> Wake-on-WLAN) is working with this debug firmware ?
> Q4) is WoWLAN working with any AC9260 firmware version ? and any
> iwlwifi driver version ?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> @team