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Re: [PATCH -next] brcmfmac: get chip's default RAM info during PCIe setup

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Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Getting RAM info just once per driver's lifetime (during chip
> recognition) is not enough as it may get adjusted later (depending on
> the used firmware). Subsequent inits may load different firmwares so a
> full RAM recognition is required on every PCIe setup. This is especially
> important since implementing hardware reset on a firmware crash.
> 
> Moreover calling brcmf_chip_get_raminfo() makes sure that RAM core is
> up. It's important as having BCMA_CORE_SYS_MEM down on BCM4366 was
> resulting in firmware failing to initialize and following error:
> [   65.657546] brcmfmac 0000:01:00.0: brcmf_pcie_download_fw_nvram: Invalid shared RAM address 0x04000001
> 
> This change makes brcmf_chip_get_raminfo() call during chip recognition
> redundant for PCIe devices but SDIO and USB still need it and it's a
> very small overhead anyway.
> 
> Fixes: 4684997d9eea ("brcmfmac: reset PCIe bus on a firmware crash")
> Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

82f93cf46d60 brcmfmac: get chip's default RAM info during PCIe setup

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11120633/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches




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