The 10.1 includes a good many stability fixes related to the effort of
backporting upstream 10.2 firmware. Also enables 802.1q vlan support.
Successfully tested on apu2.
The 10.4 firmwares including new backported code as well as stability
fixes. 10.4 has been tested on Fedora x86-64 platforms, but not on LEDE
specifically since I had issues compiling LEDE for my 9980/9984 AP hardware.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
* Backport much of the 10.2 firmware features from upstream QCA driver.
This includes ANI support, adaptive CCA, tx-hang workarounds,
and lots of other things.
Not all of this may be enabled at this point, and more code waits to
be backported as time and motivation allows.
* Fix some rate-control issues where ath10k in station mode (at least), would
sometimes get stuck at low rates. This appeared to be a probe related
state machine issue in the firmware, so I added some timeout logic to kick
the state machine if it gets stuck. This signicantly improves throughput
tests with many stations.
* Support configuring WMI WD timeout using SET_SPECIAL API.
* Properly configure the rx-mask on bootup to work around problem found
by Mr. Kazior. This should remove the need to add the driver hack he
posted.
* Allow configuring pdev failed-retry threshold. This is how many consecutive
tx failures the firmware will allow before resetting the wifi chip (not a full
firmware crash).
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
This patch moves the ath10k firmware packages to the firmware submenu
in the buildroot, where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Stijn Segers <francesco.borromini@inventati.org>
Use firmware version 10.2.4.70.54 from kvalo's git repository. The old
version (even though it's version number is greater) is an old version
from September 2015.
Using only the firmware versions from kvalo's git repo is recommended,
because those are tested by QCA's internal QCA.
The QCA988X directory received a small reorganization as a "hw2.0"
subdirectory was added - this patch also takes care of that as
board.bin was moved to that subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Tested briefly on Netgear r7800. Firmware failed to load on first
boot, but then it worked after that and I could not reproduce the
failure.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Among other things, this compiles out support for peer caching.
The feature did not seem to work well in my testing of AP mode,
and totally breaks my own special use of station mode.
Briefly tested on ea8500.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
This firmware has been lightly tested on non LEDE system
to date, and will be undergoing further testing and development.
Allow users to easily install this on their LEDE system as
they prefer.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
This lets one use the CT ath10k driver instead of the built-in
ath10k driver from the upstream kernel (or backports).
This should be a drop-in replacement, as well as enabling
better CT firmware support.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Use first caldata for devices without OTP. The driver uses the caldata
instead of the board.bin data anyway
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
Original URL got 303 redirect which then also dropped the commit id
leading to different file revision & MD5 mismatch.
Corrected URL & clarified commit ID use in Makefile
Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin@darbyshire-bryant.me.uk>
This allows one to select CT firmware for ath10k
if one prefers to try this firmware instead of stock
ath10k firmware.
The 10.1 (988X) firmware can actually be installed beside the
default firmware, but it will not be used as long as the firmware-5.bin
file exists. Users could rename the files and reboot to use different
images.
The 99X0 (wave-2) firmware uses the same firmware-5.bin name as default
firmware, so it cannot be installed at the same time as default firmware.
Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Updates the ath10-firmware release to current git and updates the
QCA988X firmware in use to version 10.2.4.70.12-2 which appears to
actually fix the stability problems when using a Nexus 5X phone as
per issue #20854. Also updates the Makefile for a change in the
location of the board.bin file for QCA988X in the source repository.
Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 47469
Updates the ath10k firmware version for QCA988X to version
10.2.4.70.10-2, which appears to fix problems with the 5GHz wireless
failing on TP-Link Archer C7 v2 when using a Nexus 5X phone. Fixes
issue #20854.
Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>
SVN-Revision: 47454
