Re: ath10k drivers on t1024 freescale board

["B R Manjula" <brm@cdot.in>]

Please can you provide useful links to cross-compilation we are getting issues while 
cross-compiling for target:

Though I am cross-compiling it is giving following error:

The conf is not executing on the host:

make defconfig-ath10k
powerpc64-fsl-linux-gcc  -mhard-float -m64 -mcpu=e5500 --sysroot=/opt/fsl-
networking/QorIQ-SDK-V1.7/sysroots/ppc64e5500-fsl-linux -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -
Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer   -c -o conf.o conf.c
powerpc64-fsl-linux-gcc  -mhard-float -m64 -mcpu=e5500 --sysroot=/opt/fsl-
networking/QorIQ-SDK-V1.7/sysroots/ppc64e5500-fsl-linux -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -
Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer   -c -o zconf.tab.o zconf.tab.c
In file included from zconf.tab.c:2503:0:
menu.c: In function 'get_symbol_str':
menu.c:561:18: warning: 'jump' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-
uninitialized]
     jump->offset = r->len - 1;
                  ^
menu.c:515:19: note: 'jump' was declared here
  struct jump_key *jump;
                   ^
powerpc64-fsl-linux-gcc  -mhard-float -m64 -mcpu=e5500 --sysroot=/opt/fsl-
networking/QorIQ-SDK-V1.7/sysroots/ppc64e5500-fsl-linux   conf.o zconf.tab.o   -o conf
./kconf/conf: ./kconf/conf: cannot execute binary file
make[1]: *** [defconfig-ath10k] Error 126
make: *** [defconfig-ath10k] Error 2




On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:04:57 +0100, Michal Kazior wrote
> On 12 January 2016 at 08:05, B R Manjula <brm@cdot.in> wrote:
> > Hello ,
> >
> > We are using kernel 3.11 on FREESCALE reference board T1024RDB-64bit board trying to
> > bringup ath10k drivers we are using WLE-900VX-7AA (11ac pcie mini card) we 
downloaded
> > the
> > firmware from the following site:
> > https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/QCA988X/main/firmware-
> > 2.bin_999.999.0.636
> > replaced as firmware.bin in the directory /lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0
> >
> > board.bin is downloaded from
> > https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/blob/master/QCA988X/board.bin
> >
> > and otp.bin was not found we just placed some file in the name as otp.bin
> >
> > we are getting the following issue:
> >
> > ath10k_pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 0: assigned [mem 0xc00000000-0xc001fffff 64bit]
> > ath10k: MSI-X didn't succeed (1), trying MSI
> > ath10k: MSI interrupt handling
> > ath10k: Hardware name qca988x hw2.0 version 0x4100016c
> > ath10k: early firmware event indicated
> > ath10k: unable to write to the device
> > ath10k: could not write otp (-110)
> > ath10k: could not init core (-110)
> > ath10k: could not probe fw (-110)
> > ath10k: could not register driver core (-110)
> > ath10k_pci: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -110
> >
> > what could be the reason.
> 
> You can't just go about and use FW API2 firmware as FW API1 one. No
> wonder device crashed.
> 
> Also you can't just place any file instead of otp.bin.
> 
> Moreover you're using an arcane version of ath10k. It's wasteful if
> you're going to report problems that were already fixed. Please
> upgrade the kernel or use backports:
> 
>   https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/backports
> 
> Michał
> 
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