Re: AP6275 / bcm43752 pcie on mainline brcmf

[Angus Ainslie <angus@akkea.ca>]

On 2022-11-29 11:48, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> On 11/17/2022 7:36 PM, Angus Ainslie wrote:
>> On 2022-11-17 10:12, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
>>> On November 17, 2022 5:06:25 PM Angus Ainslie <angus@akkea.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2022-11-17 04:01, Andy Green wrote:
>>>>> On 11/17/22 09:23, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/16/2022 1:25 PM, Shengyu Qu wrote:
>>>>>>> Got a new version of downstream driver and firmware here:
>>>>>>> https://gitlab.com/rk3588_linux/linux/external/rkwifibt/-/tree/linux-5.10-gen-rkr3.4
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks for that. The firmware indeed seems to originate from 
>>>>>> Synaptics
>>>>>> and this module can be found on wifi-alliance product finder:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> https://www.wi-fi.org/product-finder-results?sort_by=certified&sort_order=desc&keywords=ap6275
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> We have no known contacts there and they do not seem to have much
>>>>>> interest in open-source. In that gitlab repo I see they are 
>>>>>> providing
>>>>>> bcmdhd driver and I assume they consider that sufficient.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Will see what I can do. First have to think on how to approach 
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> failure to get most out of a debug effort. I do not have the 
>>>>>> module
>>>>>> over here so we would need to go back and forth. The fact that the
>>>>>> issue is seen on both SDIO and PCIe is somewhat encouraging.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Yes it seems that at some point with some firmware, SDIO has worked
>>>>> for, eg, Angus.  And, it should work well with bchdhd (but that 
>>>>> does
>>>>> not seem to work for scan for me on v6.1-rc5 uplevel with the 
>>>>> firmware
>>>>> load changed to use kernel apis; but the firmware has no timeout on
>>>>> bcmdhd). So it doesn't feel a million miles away.
>>>> 
>>>> This is the firmware we have been using for SDIO. It was sent to us
>>>> directly by SparkLAN so not sure how it compares to other variants.
>>>> 
>>>> https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/firmware-brcm43752-nonfree/-/tree/master/firmware/brcm
>>> 
>>> It is a tad bit older:
>>> 
>>> $ strings brcmfmac43752-sdio.bin | grep FW-TAG
>>> <FW-TAG>4362a2-roml/config_sdio_ampak_release_he
>>> Version=18.35.387.23.7 (b328500@shgit) (wlan=r880297)
>>> Date=2020-07-13T10:34:00Z FWID=01-f50fdff0
>>> 
>> 
>> Currently it's broken for hotspot mode but I haven't had the chance to 
>> see if that is FW or something further up the stack.
> 
> Hi Angus,
> 
> When you added support for this device in brcmfmac you marked it as a
> Cypress device. Are you sure about that? AFAICT this device is coming
> from Synaptics.
> 

Hi Arend,

I assumed Cypress based on the fact that it most closely resembled the 
4373 from the driver side.

How would I figure out whether it's Cypress or Synaptics ?

When I search the web for it I only find SparkLAN or "AMPAK technology" 
references.

Thanks
Angus


> Regards,
> Arend
> 
>> Angus
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Arend
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Angus
>>>> 
>>>>> I have the hw, and (paid) time to help with debugging this "pair of
>>>>> hands" style. I'm also a little familiar with the kernel code and 
>>>>> can
>>>>> try jiggle things autonomously if you can prompt what is 
>>>>> interesting.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Andy
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Arend