Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Sven's boarddata for the OpenMesh A42 has been accepted. \o/ > So let's try to get the board data for the RT-AC58U merged. > > On Friday, December 8, 2017 10:50:12 AM CET Kalle Valo wrote: >> > I've attached the necessary bmi-board-id=16 and bmi-board-id=17 board >> > files to this mail as well. So, all that needs to be done is to add >> > them to the board-2.bin on your codeaurora / ath10k-firmware project. >> > >> > Kalle: Can you please update the board-2.bin for the IPQ40XX on your >> > ath10k-firmware project on github? > > Since some time has passed since the original submission, I just stick to > answering the questions in the the guide from: > <https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/boardfiles> > >> description for what hardware this is > The hardware is the ASUS RT-AC58U [0]. It has a IPQ4018 SoC which > hosts two ath10k wifis. <https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC58U/> > It's based on the qcom-ipq4019-ap.dk01.1-c2. machid: 0x8010100 . > the 5GHz and 2.4GHz radio components were drastically changed and > as a result, the device's wifis don't work very well with the reference > board-2.bin values. The 5GHz wifi suffers the most, the max throughput > tops out at 6 Mbps, even in the best possible "lab conditions". > >> origin of the board file (did you create it yourself or where you downloaded) > > These files are available in ASUS's GPL Source Code release. > > The source code can be downloaded from this site: > <https://www.asus.com/Networking/RT-AC58U/HelpDesk_Download/> > Just select "Driver & Tools" in the right frame and "Others" > in the "Please select OS". It's the second tab called "Source Code": > > |Version 3.0.0.4.380.8119 > |2017/10/30 522.32 MBytes > |GPL of ASUS RT-AC58U for firmware 3.0.0.4.380.8119 > (Note: If you press "Show all", it will list two older releases as well. > The boarddata files I sent you back then came from the original > GPL_RT-AC58U_3.0.0.4.380.6516-g6772678 release. But the boarddata_*.bin > files have been updated since. So I'm attaching the new ones this time.) > > The zip file contains one big GPL_RT-AC58U_3.0.0.4.380.8119-gdb642b4.tgz > which in turn contain these these two files. > asuswrt/release/src/router/qca-wifi-fw.ipq40xx/RT-AC58U/boarddata_0.bin > asuswrt/release/src/router/qca-wifi-fw.ipq40xx/RT-AC58U/boarddata_1.bin > > I took the liberty of renaming the files to: > > boarddata_0 -> bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U.bin > boarddata_1 -> bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U.bin > >> ids to be used with the board file (ATH10K_BD_IE_BOARD_NAME in ath10k) > > Following OpenMesh A42 example of "VENDOR-DEVICE", I choose to go with: > "ASUS-RT-AC58U" as the variant string: > > full board name (ATH10K_BD_IE_BOARD_NAME): > bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U > bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U > > { > "data": "bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U.bin", > "names": [ > "bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U" > ] > }, > { > "data": "bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U.bin", > "names": [ > "bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U" > ] > }, > > (if this is appended at the end of board-2.json, please remove the > last comma) > >> attach the actual board file (board.bin) > attached. > > just in case. These are the sha256sum: > d9eb177737983ed320027d50711fd17fadc8057ff0a99d1d455342ef7a7bb1af \ > bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U.bin > > 24969cd91553fd915c51a8fe51c7b7e0e273679e1349b47d0a6c5ef4b4bb4a1b \ > bus=ahb,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=17,variant=ASUS-RT-AC58U.bin > > I also verified that the ASUS' firmware for the RT-AC58U > (FW_RT_AC58U_30043808119.ZIP) uses the very same files. Added, thanks. But please do double check that I didn't do any mistakes. https://github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/commit/4b89c2b7efef0ba663339c1a42c673e97c7562bd -- Kalle Valo
