Re: [PATCH v4 00/12] add support for WCN6750

[Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com>]

On 4/27/2022 11:23 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Manikanta Pubbisetty <quic_mpubbise@quicinc.com> writes:
> 
>> WCN6750 is non-DBS 2x2 11AX chipset. Unlike QCA6390/WCN6855 which
>> are DBS (dual band simultaneous) solutions (2 LMACs), WCN6750 has a
>> single LMAC supporting 2G, 5G and 6G bands. It can be operated only
>> on one band at any given point.
>>
>> WCN6750 is a PCIe device. Unlike other supported ATH11K PCIe devices
>> which are directly attached to APSS (Application Processor SubSystem),
>> WCN6750 is not attached to APSS, it is attached to the WPSS
>> (Wireless Processor SubSystem) Q6 processor, the FW which runs on the
>> Q6 processor will enumerate the PCIe device. Since APSS is unaware of
>> such a device, it has to be registered as a platform device(AHB) to the
>> kernel for device probing. Like other AHB devices, remoteproc APIs are
>> used to boot up or shutdown of WCN6750.
>>
>> WCN6750 uses both AHB and PCIe ATH11K APIs for it's operation.
>> It uses AHB APIs for device probe and booting of the remote processor.
>> Once device is booted up, it uses ATH11K PCIe APIs for initialization
>> and register access. Hence, it is referred as hybrid bus device in
>> the rest of this series.
>>
>> Since the chip is enumerated by WPSS Q6, device information like
>> BAR and BAR size is not known to the APSS processor. A new QMI message
>> called device info QMI request will be sent to the target for fetching
>> these details.
>>
>> STA and AP modes are supported; Basic connectivity and ping are
>> verified in both the modes.
>>
>> An important point to note is that though WCN6750 is a PCIe device,
>> it cannot be attached to any other platform except on Qualcomm
>> Snapdragon SoCs due to the aforementioned reasons.
>>
>> Tested-on: WCN6750 hw1.0 AHB WLAN.MSL.1.0.1-00573-QCAMSLSWPLZ-1
>> Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-01720.1-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-1
>> Tested-on: QCN9074 hw1.0 PCI WLAN.HK.2.5.0.1-01100-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
>> Tested-on: IPQ8074 hw2.0 AHB WLAN.HK.2.4.0.1-00192-QCAHKSWPL_SILICONZ-1
>>
>> Manikanta Pubbisetty (12):
>>    dt: bindings: net: add bindings of WCN6750 for ath11k
>>    ath11k: Add HW params for WCN6750
>>    ath11k: Add bus params for WCN6750
>>    ath11k: Add register access logic for WCN6750
>>    ath11k: Fetch device information via QMI for WCN6750
>>    ath11k: Add QMI changes for WCN6750
>>    ath11k: HAL changes to support WCN6750
>>    ath11k: Datapath changes to support WCN6750
>>    ath11k: Do not put HW in DBS mode for WCN6750
>>    ath11k: WMI changes to support WCN6750
>>    ath11k: Update WBM idle ring HP after FW mode on
>>    ath11k: Add support for WCN6750 device
> 
> Due to the bus_params problem I had to drop most of the patches, but I
> did keep few of them in the pending branch to reduce the patchset size:
> 
> 495a15b1969a ath11k: Update WBM idle ring HP after FW mode on
> 8d121dacbe35 ath11k: WMI changes to support WCN6750
> e31091e06011 ath11k: Do not put HW in DBS mode for WCN6750
> 
> Please submit v6 only after I have applied these, I'm waiting for some
> build testing first.
> 

Sure Kalle, thanks!!

Manikanta