Hello, This device works with OpenWrt, currently using images for MF286A variant, but wireless interfaces were heavily modified from previous iteration - - now 2x2 configuration is used instead of 3x3, and without the file, 5GHz performance suffers badly. Replacing generic board data with file extracted from vendor firmware fixes that.
I would like to upstream the board file for it, before I upstream support for
this variant to OpenWrt, as this will have to be referenced in the device tree
explicitly.
Now to the questions from the wiki page [1]:
* description for what hardware this is:
- it is a QCA9563 based board
- QCA9563 is used for 2.4GHz (so out of concern for ath10k)
- QCA9888 is used for 5GHz band
* origin of the board file (did you create it yourself or where you
downloaded)
- Extracted from the vendor firmware by myself.
* ids to be used with the board file (ATH10K_BD_IE_BOARD_NAME in ath10k)
- QCA9888 hw2.0
+ bus=pci,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=ZTE-MF286C.bin
sha256sum:
140a4abbb441a3ad0fb35a7e21c6d5b4034516b77eb232aedfacd2a7d57dad0e
* attach the actual board file (board.bin)
- The name of the file is equal to the id string in the board-2.bin
(minus the ".bin")
With kind regards,
Lech
[1]https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath10k/boardfiles
bus=pci,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=16,variant=ZTE-MF286C.bin
Description: Binary data
