Hi, On Mon, 2020-03-23 at 10:13 +0100, Equipe Soft wrote: > Hello, we really wonder if the version of the firmware we use is the right one. > I put Luca Coelho in copy according to his activity on git about > firmware: thank you for your help Luca. > Best regards. > @team. > > > Le ven. 13 mars 2020 à 11:05, Equipe Soft > <equipe.soft.isere@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > Hello, do you have any news about the issue? > > Best regards. > > @team > > Le ven. 6 mars 2020 à 10:33, Equipe Soft <equipe.soft.isere@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > > Hello, > > > we are using backport-iwlwifi core45 drivers and latest AC9260 > > > firmware binary blob: > > > latest firmware available in Intel iwlwifi firmware fork: > > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/linux-firmware.git/commit/iwlwifi-9260-th-b0-jf-b0-46.ucode?id=4bebf45872a9818a17e2079118500030a8fa377a > > > 2019-11-28 iwlwifi: update FWs to core47-142 release > > > > > > At runtime, we noticed these log traces: > > > iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Found debug destination: EXTERNAL_DRAM > > > iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Found debug configuration: 0 > > > iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Allocated 0x00400000 bytes for firmware monitor. > > > So it seems that it is a debug firmware... > > > > > > Q0) can you please confirm that we can safely use this debug firmware > > > in our product ? You can use this firmware. It's a production firmware and not a debugging version. > > > Q1) is debug mode deliberately enabled in newer firmware or is it an > > > error (maybe like forgotten to disable it) ? It is deliberately enabled. We enable some debugging options by default so they can be extracted if needed. > > > Q2) is there an impact on performance with this debug firmware ? WiFi > > > speed/throughput may be reduced or not ? No, there isn't any impact on performance. > > > Q3) moreover, can you please confirm whether or not WoWLAN (aka > > > Wake-on-WLAN) is working with this debug firmware ? WoWLAN should work fine with this firmware. > > > Q4) is WoWLAN working with any AC9260 firmware version ? and any > > > iwlwifi driver version ? It has been supported for many years now. AC9260 got support for this from the first version of the driver/FW that were publicly released. HTH. -- Cheers, Luca.
