On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 12:25 PM Adam Ford <aford173@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am seeing a really long delay at startup of the wl18xx using the 5.4 kernel. > Sorry I had to resend. I forgot to do plaintext. Google switched settings on me and neglected to inform me. > [ 7.895551] wl18xx_driver wl18xx.2.auto: Direct firmware load for ti-connectivity/wl18xx-conf.bin failed with error -2 > [ 7.906416] wl18xx_driver wl18xx.2.auto: Falling back to sysfs fallback for: ti-connectivity/wl18xx-conf.bin > > At this point in the sequence, I can login to Linux, but the WL18xx is unavailable. > > [ 35.032382] vwl1837: disabling > [ 69.594874] wlcore: ERROR could not get configuration binary ti-connectivity/wl18xx-conf.bin: -11 > [ 69.604013] wlcore: WARNING falling back to default config > [ 70.174821] wlcore: wl18xx HW: 183x or 180x, PG 2.2 (ROM 0x11) > [ 70.189003] wlcore: WARNING Detected unconfigured mac address in nvs, derive from fuse instead. > [ 70.197851] wlcore: WARNING This default nvs file can be removed from the file system > [ 70.218816] wlcore: loaded > > It is now at this point when the wl18xx is available. > > I have the wl18xx and wlcore setup as a module so it should load after the filesystem is mounted. I am not using a wl18xx-conf.bin, but I never needed to use this before. > > It seems to me unreasonable to wait 60+ seconds after everything is mounted for the wireless chip to become available. Before I attempt to bisect this, I was hoping someone might have seen this. I am also trying to avoid duplicating someone else's efforts. > > I know the 4.19 doesn't behave like this. > > adam