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Re: Long Delay on startup of wl18xx Wireless chip

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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




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