Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] wifi: ath11k: support board-specific firmware overrides

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

Miaoqing Pan <quic_miaoqing@quicinc.com> writes:

>>>>>> Understand your concern, automatic adaptation is always the best
>>>>>> choice. But
>>>>>> it may not work for MSM boards, the PCIe card (non m.2) is
>>>>>> customized, which
>>>>>> has special PMU control. User can't swap cards. And that's why power
>>>>>> sequencing module was introduced.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know. Still, it's better to have less unnecessary data there for
>>>>> autodiscoverable devices.
>>>>
>>>
>>> We discussed internally, we have no other choice to enable NFA765 for non
>>> X86 boards. Could you please approve this 'DT' approach ?
>> If you can't use subdevice approach for some reason, then we have no
>> other choice that I can imagine.
>> 
>
> A new patch was submitted:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-wireless/20241031000541.3331606-1-quic_miaoqing@quicinc.com/.
> This patch will add QCA6698AQ support, which follows the approach done
> in commit 5dc9d1a55e95 ("wifi: ath11k: add support for QCA2066"),
> enumerates the subversion number to identify the specific card.
>
> But there is still a problem enabling NFA765 m.2 card for IoT
> platforms, which requires ath11k to support board-specific firmware
> overrides.

So there are multiple different hardware you want to support? This is
very confusing and the commit message does not really tell anything
about those. Can you list _all_ the hardware you want to support and
what firmware it needs?

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