OK, many thanks for these advices. ^_^ I will try both cases: *) recent board files + older firmware file *) recent board + firmware files and latest ath10k thanks to backports project
Moreover, do you have any clue about previous questions Q4 and Q5 ? And finally, I know it will be difficult to answer, but: Q6) what is the expected throughput on Linux host ? from: https://www.qualcomm.com/media/documents/files/qca6174a-product-brief.pdf WLAN TCP/IP Throughput 620Mbps/600Mbps TCP DL/UL (PCIe2.1) Is it true on Linux ? Thanks again for your help, Contrib 2018-01-11 17:21 UTC+01:00, Kalle Valo <[email protected]>: > Contrib Open Source <[email protected]> writes: > >> So my questions are : > >> Q1) is it correct to "downgrade" firmware API in this case (symbolic >> link firmware-5.bin) ? > > It's not safe, you have to really know what you are doing and understand > the ath10k internals. We do these FW API increases (5 -> 6) for a > reason, usually because the new firmware won't work with older version > of ath10k. > > But if you want to run latest ath10k on older kernels I recommend to > look at backports project: > > https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page > >> Q2) is it possible to use recent board files with an "older" firmware >> file ? > > To my knowledge board files are not dependent on the firmware versions. > So yes, you should be able to use newer board-2.bin with older firmware > release. > >> Q3) how to know which firmware files to use for my specific device ? > > The firmware releases are not "device" specific (but of course it > depends on what you mean with device in this context). But my > recommendation is to always use the latest firmware which works with > your kernel (WITHOUT any symlink hacks etc). > > -- > Kalle Valo > _______________________________________________ ath10k mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath10k
