Re: [PATCH] ath10k: restore QCA9880-AR1A (v1) detection

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 09/10/2019 06:51 AM, Sebastian Gottschall wrote:
> the tplink archer c7 v1 indeed has this hw 1 version. but thats the only device i know comming with this chipset version
> but the v1 has also a minipcie slot and is not soldered like all other revisions.  so i just replaced the card on my test device.
> in addition we may ask ben grear if he is able to provide a v1 firmware from his ct tree since the qca sourcecodes do contain support
> for the v1 revision. but dont expect too much. there was a reason why v1 was never really on the market

Hello,

I don't think I can even build a v1 firmware if I wanted to, and I'd much rather work on newer
chips.  That v1 was an unstable wreck from the beginning, at least with open-source driver.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> Am 10.09.2019 um 14:59 schrieb Tom Psyborg:
>> 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..
>>
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