On 23/03/2020, Ming Chen <Ming.Chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No, it will be very difficult for us to upgrade the kernel. > This module(QCA9986 PCIe) is from the a third party company. They are using > the QCA driver and it works well. We are trying to integrate this module to > our own device(PPC-64 + Kernel 4.14.83). We don't want to upgrade the > kernel, since it will be a huge challenge work for us. > > > Thanks > Ming Chen > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Tom Psyborg <pozega.tomislav@xxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2020 11:16 PM >> To: Ming Chen <Ming.Chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: Firmware Crashed >> >> can you try to boot it in another device and using some distro that >> has 4.19 or later kernel without backports? > My suggestion is to try it in x86_64 PC. Then you can just use live linux distro with different kernel versions. If it does not work with any of these you may have ran into a hw bug sample. If it does work then you don't need to update your PPC64 kernel but find an architecture/device speific bug that prevents it from loading.
