Sven Eckelmann <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Monday, 29 January 2024 07:57:23 CET Raj Kumar Bhagat wrote:
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/fw.c
>> b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/fw.c
>> index fbcf40c97792..5be4b2d4a19d 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/fw.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath12k/fw.c
>> @@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ static int
>> ath12k_fw_request_firmware_api_n(struct ath12k_base *ab,
> [...]
>> + case ATH12K_FW_IE_AMSS_DUALMAC_IMAGE:
>> + ath12k_dbg(ab, ATH12K_DBG_BOOT,
>> + "found dualmac fw image ie (%zd B)\n",
>> + ie_len);
>> + ab->fw.amss_dualmac_data = data;
>> + ab->fw.amss_dualmac_len = ie_len;
>> + break;
>> default:
>> ath12k_warn(ab, "Unknown FW IE: %u\n", ie_id);
>> break;
>
>> @@ -371,16 +375,43 @@ int ath12k_mhi_register(struct ath12k_pci *ab_pci)
> [...]
>> + if (dualmac) {
>> + if (ab->fw.amss_dualmac_data && ab->fw.amss_dualmac_len > 0) {
>> + /* use MHI firmware file from firmware-N.bin */
>> + mhi_ctrl->fw_data = ab->fw.amss_dualmac_data;
>> + mhi_ctrl->fw_sz = ab->fw.amss_dualmac_len;
>> + } else {
>> + ath12k_warn(ab, "dualmac firmware IE not present in
>> firmware-N.bin\n");
>> + ret = -ENOENT;
>> + goto free_controller;
>> + }
>
> I saw this now already multiple times that the source code was referencing the
> firmware-N.bin (like we had with ath10k). But they aren't published anywhere.
> I can't find a single one at:
>
> *
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ath11k
> *
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ath12k
> * https://github.com/kvalo/ath11k-firmware
> * https://github.com/quic/upstream-wifi-fw
>
> So I find it odd that the new code now seems to depend on it without actually
> providing these files anywhere.
For example, firmware-2.bin will be used for qrtr id to support multiple
devices on the same host.
> Might be good to have these soon in linux-firmware.git.
Yeah, we will but just slowly. We are currently moving
ath1?k-firmware.git repos to a new location, firmware-N.bin files should
start emerging after that.
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