Re: [PATCH RESEND 2/2] Bluetooth: fix use-bdaddr-property quirk

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On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 at 17:14, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2023 at 07:12:35PM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 at 16:37, Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > That's odd. You should still see the above messages also with this patch
> > > applied, but you may now need to provide a valid device address before
> > > being able to use device in case the bootloader has not provided one
> > > (e.g. using btmgmt).
> >
> > Sorry for the confusion, I missed the part where I do see these
> > messages when the kernel module is loaded but the direct firmware
> > loading fails.
> >
> > Bluetooth: hci0: setting up wcn399x
> > Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Product ID   :0x0000000a
> > Bluetooth: hci0: QCA SOC Version  :0x40010214
> > Bluetooth: hci0: QCA ROM Version  :0x00000201
> > Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Patch Version:0x00000001
> > Bluetooth: hci0: QCA controller version 0x02140201
> > Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Downloading qca/crbtfw21.tlv
> > bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for qca/crbtfw21.tlv failed with error -2
> > Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Failed to request file: qca/crbtfw21.tlv (-2)
> > Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Failed to download patch (-2)
> > Bluetooth: hci0: QCA preshutdown_cmd failed (-56)
> >
> > This happens in all the cases (working and non-working BT) because
> > filesystem is not mounted by that time. I'm running AOSP and all the
> > kernel modules get loaded from a ramdisk. But in the working case, the
> > firmware loading kicks in again later in the boot process and BT gets
> > initiazed..
> >
> > With this patch, after the first attempt to load the firmware fails,
> > the firmware loading doesn't kick-in again. Also even if I keep the
> > firmware in ramdisk then the direct firmware loading from ramdisk
> > happens but BT still doesn't work
> > https://bugs.linaro.org/attachment.cgi?id=1148.
>
> So everything appears to work as intended. First, the firmware needs to
> be in your initramfs if you want to avoid that initial fw load failure.
>
> And after that you need to provide a valid device address as these
> devices ship without one.
>
> Once you set the address, the firmware should be loaded if it hasn't
> been already.

Thanks a lot for explanation Johan. I just booted up Debian on DB845c
and btmgmt works as you pointed out above.

root@linaro-gnome:~#
root@linaro-gnome:~# uname -a
Linux linaro-gnome 6.5.0-rc1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 10 15:42:50 IST
2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root@linaro-gnome:~#
root@linaro-gnome:~# btmgmt public-addr 01:02:03:04:05:06
[  165.708146] Bluetooth: MGMT ver 1.22
hci0 Set Public Address complete, options:
[  165.715275] Bluetooth: hci0: setting up wcn399x
root@linaro-gnome:~# [  165.868755] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Product ID
:0x0000000a
[  165.874272] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA SOC Version  :0x40010214
[  165.879758] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA ROM Version  :0x00000201
[  165.885226] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Patch Version:0x00000001
[  165.903506] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA controller version 0x02140201
[  165.909424] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Downloading qca/crbtfw21.tlv
[  166.794992] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA Downloading qca/crnv21.bin
[  166.870882] Bluetooth: hci0: QCA setup on UART is completed

>
> > > Are there any error messages in the log when running with this patch?
> >
> > I don't see any relevant error message in dmesg. I'll check if I can
> > find a command line BT debug tool which I can use on AOSP for
> > debugging. There used to be a few hci command line tools, when I
> > looked into it a few years ago. Not sure if they are still around and
> > useful.
>
> Yeah, I'm not sure how you set the device address with the Android
> stack, but there must be some way as there are other bluetooth
> controllers out there which similarly need a valid address before they
> can be used.
>

I'll look if I can reuse/simplify "btmgmt public-addr" command on
Android or find an equivalent tool to do that.

Regards,
Amit Pundir



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