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From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: ath10k <ath10k@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Firmware debugging patches?
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 12:43:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tx7yl6fh.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538CEAE0.6090304@candelatech.com> (Ben Greear's message of "Mon,  2 Jun 2014 14:21:36 -0700")

Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> writes:

> I'm looking at how iwlwifi/mvm does this.  I should be able to read the
> ath10k stack and exception stack on generic firmware, but to get the BSS region,
> I ended up adding some additional meta info to the firmware-2.bin image
> specifying the offsets when doing my CT firmware.
>
> You should not need to re-compile the firmware for this, but you would have
> to be able to run some xtensa tool commands to get this info and re-pack
> the firmware with additional meta-info (as far as I know).
>
> Any chance upstream firmware could support specifying the bss region
> offsets so that I can dump that into the debugfs dump file?

Sure, having the bss region in enum ath10k_fw_ie_type makes sense. And
if the value is missing from the image, we would have some sane default
in ath10k.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-06-06  9:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <53891ACD.7070902@candelatech.com>
2014-06-02 16:21 ` Firmware debugging patches? Kalle Valo
2014-06-02 16:40   ` Ben Greear
2014-06-02 17:08     ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-02 17:42       ` Ben Greear
2014-06-02 18:46         ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-06-02 18:58           ` Ben Greear
2014-06-02 19:29             ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-06-02 19:48               ` Ben Greear
2014-06-04 19:23                 ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-06-04 19:29                   ` Ben Greear
2014-06-05 11:10                     ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 15:51                       ` Ben Greear
2014-06-05 11:06                 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 15:57                   ` Ben Greear
2014-06-06  6:51                     ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-06 16:02                       ` Ben Greear
2014-06-07 13:03                         ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-07 15:27                           ` Ben Greear
2014-06-08  8:35                             ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-08  9:13                               ` Johannes Berg
2014-06-08 16:01                                 ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2014-06-08 15:39                               ` Ben Greear
2014-06-09  8:17                                 ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-09 15:09                                   ` Ben Greear
2014-06-09 15:47                                     ` Ben Greear
2014-06-09 16:27                                       ` Ben Greear
2014-06-10  6:05                                         ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-10 15:06                                           ` Ben Greear
2014-06-26 15:26                                           ` Ben Greear
2014-06-26 16:01                                             ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 10:58             ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 15:59               ` Ben Greear
2014-06-05 10:51         ` Kalle Valo
2014-06-05 16:03           ` Ben Greear
2014-06-02 21:21   ` Ben Greear
2014-06-06  9:43     ` Kalle Valo [this message]

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