ath11k is a new driver for Qualcomm IEEE 802.11ax devices, first supporting only IPQ8074 SoC using the shared memory AHB bus. ath11k uses mac80211 and supports AP, Station and Mesh modes. Even though ath11k has some similar code as with ath10k (especially the WMI layer) it was concluded to be simpler to have a "clean start" for ath11k code base and not try to share the code with ath10k. This makes maintenance easier and avoids major changes in ath10k, which would have significantly increased the risk of regressions in existing setups. Even though the driver is very similar with ath10k but there are major differences as well. The datapath is completely different. ath11k supports multiple MACs, called "soc" in the firmware interface. And there's only one WMI interface to support. Currently ath11k supports only IEEE 802.11ac mode, but patches for 802.11ax are available and they will be submitted after ath11k is accepted to upstream. The firmware images are available from ath11k-firmware repository but they will be also submitted to linux-firmware: https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware The driver has had multiple authors who are listed in alphabetical order below. Signed-off-by: Anilkumar Kolli <akolli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Bhagavathi Perumal S <bperumal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Sesetti <gseset@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Govindaraj Saminathan <gsamin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Karthikeyan Periyasamy <periyasa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Maharaja Kennadyrajan <mkenna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Manikanta Pubbisetty <mpubbise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miles Hu <milehu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Muna Sinada <msinada@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pradeep Kumar Chitrapu <pradeepc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sathishkumar Muruganandam <murugana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shashidhar Lakkavalli <slakkavalli@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sriram R <srirrama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <seckelmann@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Venkateswara Naralasetty <vnaralas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --------------[cut]-------------------[cut]----------------- I have split the driver into multiple patches for easier review, but the final version will be split into three commits: 1. adding Documentatio/devicetree/bindings/net/wireless/qcom,ath11k.yaml 2. adding drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath11k/ with the commit log being the text before the cut line above. 3. adding ath11k entry to MAINTAINERS file This version is based on commit ab4d2bd0f2170af00cfeecc29a4560507c74f31f from ath11k-bringup branch on my ath.git tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvalo/ath.git/log/?h=ath11k-bringup This patchset applies to wireless-drivers-next but needs CONFIG_COMPILE_TEST, CONFIG_REMOTEPROC AND CONFIG_QCOM_QMI_HELPERS to be able to compile on x86. Please review and comment. Kalle v2: * There are three final patches to commit, not just one. * Write commit log for the device tree bindings patch. * License changed to BSD 3-clause "Clear". * git log --oneline --reverse ath11k-review-v1..ath11k-review-v2: f6153fa78616 ath11k: fix Kconfig, replace spaces with tabs b6b140aa1739 ath11k: Use C99 structure initialization for target_service_to_ce_map_wlan[] d054355585aa ath11k: Remove ring mask macros defined for 0 4c980dcca60a ath11k: Move ath11k_ahb_read32() and ath11k_ahb_write32() to ahb.h be7eb8bbca02 ath11k: Avoid code duplication in set/clear of a register bit values 11978c109885 ath11k: Few clean ups in comments 8cc72b480777 ath11k: Clean ups in ath11k_ce_rx_buf_enqueue_pipe() error path 9f55e5658237 ath11k: Clean up parameter list in ath11k_ce_completed_send_next() 3dcb3e76a260 ath11k: Use struct_size() to get the structure size with trailing array a1329c05a4e0 ath11k: change license to BSD 3-clause "Clear" bcd3f5043856 ath11k: fix multicast rate parameter size e4386fb86f51 ath11k: assigning values to enum 78b6da0fb67c ath11k: Add debugfs per chip e44597a02dad ath11k: fix tkip mic error reporting to cfg80211 ea1107a93b4a dt-bindings: net: add qcom,ath11k.yaml ab4d2bd0f217 ath11k: whitespace cleanup in core.c
