Re: [PATCH v5 00/12] add support for WCN6750

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>]

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.1.0.1-00887-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
> ---
> V5:
>  - Rebased on ToT SHAID: 01be26cde012478db958d9bde530877c46031e76

I already had v4 applied to the pending branch so I'm going to drop v5
and look at v4 instead.

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