Modified ath10k firmware is now available for non-commercial use.

Modified ath10k firmware is now available for non-commercial use.

[Ben Greear]

Our modified ath10k firmware binary is now available for download.  It may only be used
for non-commercial purposes unless you get a commercial license from my company.

The main thing this firmware supports that upstream firmware does not
is lots of virtual stations connected to the same AP.  We have some
additional stability fixes we found in testing, and probably have introduced
some bugs as well.  We will be putting ongoing effort into improving
this firmware.

We also have the ability to decode firmware stack dumps (found in
dmesg and/or /var/log/messages) if they come from our firmware.
We cannot share the details of the decode nor tools to decode it,
but we will try to fix the problems and/or describe the results of
our decode in general terms.

The firmware should work with stock 3.14 or other recent kernels,
but we have done most testing using our own modified 3.14 kernel.
Our kernel patches are required to support the additional stations,
software-crypt, and other features specific to our firmware.

If you use our firmware and manage to crash it, please send to me the pertinent
part of /var/log/messages (or dmesg), including any ath10k related ascii
hex dumps.  Other non-crash bug reports are welcome too.

Please do not bother the QCA developers with any bugs specific to our
firmware (or our kernel patches).

Links to the firmware binary, our 3.14.0+ kernel source, and related
info is found here:

http://www.candelatech.com/vsta.php

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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Re: Modified ath10k firmware is now available for non-commercial use.

[Yeoh Chun-Yeow]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
> Our modified ath10k firmware binary is now available for download.  It may only be used
> for non-commercial purposes unless you get a commercial license from my company.
>
> The main thing this firmware supports that upstream firmware does not
> is lots of virtual stations connected to the same AP.
Is this firmware mainly for STA mode or AP mode or both?

> We have some
> additional stability fixes we found in testing, and probably have introduced
> some bugs as well.  We will be putting ongoing effort into improving
> this firmware.
>
> We also have the ability to decode firmware stack dumps (found in
> dmesg and/or /var/log/messages) if they come from our firmware.
> We cannot share the details of the decode nor tools to decode it,
> but we will try to fix the problems and/or describe the results of
> our decode in general terms.
>
> The firmware should work with stock 3.14 or other recent kernels,
> but we have done most testing using our own modified 3.14 kernel.
> Our kernel patches are required to support the additional stations,
> software-crypt, and other features specific to our firmware.
>
Raw Tx mode without the firmware stripping off the QoS control field
is supported?

> If you use our firmware and manage to crash it, please send to me the pertinent
> part of /var/log/messages (or dmesg), including any ath10k related ascii
> hex dumps.  Other non-crash bug reports are welcome too.
>
> Please do not bother the QCA developers with any bugs specific to our
> firmware (or our kernel patches).
>
> Links to the firmware binary, our 3.14.0+ kernel source, and related
> info is found here:
>
> http://www.candelatech.com/vsta.php
>
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
Thanks for your great work.

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Chun-Yeow

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Re: Modified ath10k firmware is now available for non-commercial use.

[Ben Greear]

On 04/14/2014 06:38 PM, Yeoh Chun-Yeow wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> wrote:
>> Our modified ath10k firmware binary is now available for download.  It may only be used
>> for non-commercial purposes unless you get a commercial license from my company.
>>
>> The main thing this firmware supports that upstream firmware does not
>> is lots of virtual stations connected to the same AP.
> Is this firmware mainly for STA mode or AP mode or both?

It should work for both.  Most testing has been in STA mode.  It is based on
top of the .467 (AP) firmware...

>> We have some
>> additional stability fixes we found in testing, and probably have introduced
>> some bugs as well.  We will be putting ongoing effort into improving
>> this firmware.
>>
>> We also have the ability to decode firmware stack dumps (found in
>> dmesg and/or /var/log/messages) if they come from our firmware.
>> We cannot share the details of the decode nor tools to decode it,
>> but we will try to fix the problems and/or describe the results of
>> our decode in general terms.
>>
>> The firmware should work with stock 3.14 or other recent kernels,
>> but we have done most testing using our own modified 3.14 kernel.
>> Our kernel patches are required to support the additional stations,
>> software-crypt, and other features specific to our firmware.
>>
> Raw Tx mode without the firmware stripping off the QoS control field
> is supported?

No, probably not, but you can disable hwcrypt for RX pkts, at least.

Might could add the raw tx mode some day, but I've higher
priority tasks first....

Thanks,
Ben

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Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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