> > 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. [Ming Chen] Thanks for the suggestion. I don't have a PC with PCIe socket on my hand, but it's indeed worth to have a try. I will try to find a one.
