Add QCA6174 0x32 to firmware files

[Geramy]

I have a firmware file for the QCA6174, 0x32 chipset hardware revision, I need to add it in to the repository for now I will put the google share link here to it.

[Geramy]

The file can be found here, https://drive.google.com/open?id=107PePJLBYtp8AhbbDAKTpDERePvMO5x5
I cannot give instructions on how to rename this file for the QCA6174 model for this branch but you can figure it out, its very self explanatory. checkout my branch if you need some Instructables I did the best I could with the time I have.

[k0pernicus]

Thanks @Geramy :)

So, as I understood, a bin file (in /boot/modules) is related to a ko file (in /boot/kernel).
As we compile different hw versions, we just need to rename the binary file from your Google Drive account to the last hw version of the binary board compiled file, right?

In this case, we just need to replace the last hw board version file with this one?

Thanks a lot for your help!!!! :D

[Geramy]

You do, but you need to replace it in the source before you compile and then you have to compile the program again because it creates the .ko files which are like a header in a sense for the .bin files which the kernel uses the .ko to be able to load the .bin or thats kind of how I see it. @k0pernicus Let me know how it goes.

[Geramy]

Inside the following path in the image below you will replace the board.bin file with the one from my drive, once you replace the file you will need to recompile everything and then you will be able to put the .ko files where they belong and the .bin files where they belong, checkout my arvif branch for more information it has a readme available. I will at some point put together an installer script and compile a Alpha version so you don't have to do anything. Please look out for that in the coming future.

[Geramy]

I re-applied the link above, I gave you the link to the board-2.bin file I actually added the board.bin too for the 0x32, but QCA6174 in this kernel port does not have board-2.bin files that have multiple board files in it. so please re-download from the link above again. Sorry, its hard to remember when you switch from ath10k and the port for freebsd haha.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=107PePJLBYtp8AhbbDAKTpDERePvMO5x5

[k0pernicus]

Thanks @Geramy.
Using board-2.bin, I had a core dump again ;)

I will try replacing the board.bin of hw-3.0 with the one you just shared.

I keep in touch in a few minutes

[k0pernicus]

@Geramy So, I moved the board.bin file in the contrib folder, compiled everything, copies the dedicated ko & bin files in dedicated folders and...

kldload commands don't failed :D

Unfortunately, after the kldload if_athp, I don't have any output...
I checked the dmesg output but I did not found anything related to the module(s) load 🤔

Btw, I just loaded hw_3.0 files, not hw_2.1 ones... Do I need to load the hw_2.1 as well?

If I try an ifconfig just after, I only have l0, not wlan one...
And, if I try to create a wlandev, I have the error SIOCIFCREATE2: Device not configured.

Did I missed something during the kernel module loading stuff?

[Geramy]

Please open a new ticket and give me as much logs as you can please, pictures work but files are better.

[k0pernicus]

Thanks @Geramy, I did it here #22.