[OpenWrt-Devel] New ath10k-ct firmware available.

[Álvaro Fernández Rojas]

Hi Ben,

I've renamed the old full-htt-mgt firmwares and added the new ones as 
htt-mgt. This way the user can choose between both of them:
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/2963

Best regards,
Álvaro.

El 24/04/2020 a las 20:48, Ben Greear escribió:
> For the wave-2, there is now a new variant:  htt-mgt-community (vs the 
> old full-htt-mgt-community)
> the non-full one (hence forth 'diet') compiles out a lot of firmware 
> features that ath10k does not use (and/or which I
> consider unimportant).  This saves a lot of resources and lets one 
> configure more stations/vdevs/etc
> using fwcfg.
> 
> I also tuned the 9886/8 and 4019 firmware to make better use of memory.  
> With proper fwcfg,
> the 9888 supports 200 stations and the 4019 supports 162.  I have not 
> yet fully tested this
> of course, but will be doing so over the coming days.  I did previously 
> test 228 total stations
> on a Linksys MR8300 (aka EA8300) and it did fine in a torture test.
> 
> My suggestion is to use the diet compile in place of the 'full-htt-mgt' 
> one, but another option is
> to give the user another option to pick they file they want in the 
> openwrt makefile.
> 
> I am hoping someone will be able to do the openwrt patch, here is the 
> raw info below.
> 
> 
> 988x
> 8b4c99253aa309d35f2e060c190091b8db1b84dbda06a6a15c83ac0f9a938126  
> firmware-2-ct-full-community-22.bin.lede.018
> a7168916d6aa5e4d7858f8b620c0c980c76d03f390929db6f4077685ce2051e7  
> firmware-2-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-22.bin.lede.018
> /home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
> 9887
> 459692deb186a63ab8eeddb7ad5d54779266e68ca686e7c46062554db6dca12b  
> firmware-2-ct-full-community-22.bin.lede.018
> fd126a457d0927d0c8ea10d66ef5b67d5e1e0741f8692bb3016bb602d0af3098  
> firmware-2-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-22.bin.lede.018
> /home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
> 9980
> cf26eb37524de54af51fe9b2efffc85e0e70ab849e8607ef63ce5a8ecffeaa42  
> firmware-5-ct-full-community-12.bin-lede.018
> e9737538d7379e13ad4e4c8c519a63659b5e34a35455ed9ac4399ae8097caabc  
> firmware-5-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
> 4d4f74afca487d452f244cd48304cf9710d8941eb97a6346a949ed6b6877d657  
> firmware-5-ct-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
> /home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
> 9984
> a6b3d66efe640a430a837f238e91eddcd423eed6b887d3ae19716d87a71fd0b1  
> firmware-5-ct-full-community-12.bin-lede.018
> 96060227e372b3b210badccbe6b0bd75d9a35335a7a0f2966964e9e89f66b00f  
> firmware-5-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
> ee593fb5724d75c372de02ac7894e1630ee9f909fcb2e2bbf17aadef67cb9d43  
> firmware-5-ct-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
> /home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
> 4019
> 46d8f8f1e780813299dc8780eedcfceda103c6b4d8908589ad1adbef921714c0  
> firmware-5-ct-full-community-12.bin-lede.018
> d884624fc34f4b5de7a3ec0534627c46cea25fca45657f3a2f6bb85f6c5893d7  
> firmware-5-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
> 51fe06f66365771647d16039cca8b541de3d642c45271977a4cfd433c2c5d45b  
> firmware-5-ct-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
> /home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
> 9888
> d01f1429aaf0bfac07eee3547e5821d19136840b2f983e75e76979a5ac19b6f0  
> firmware-5-ct-full-community-12.bin-lede.018
> 68c42f8e0dcf77f18d4813ac93174bf06ff5cf5aa4f69befe7f35f9fae1de1e3  
> firmware-5-ct-full-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
> 6c692141155f5bb74c0117553d5d48ff2aaba73bd4d5e90a5044a5e2ec0faab0  
> firmware-5-ct-htt-mgt-community-12.bin-lede.018
> /home/greearb/candela_html/downloads
> 
> Example fwcfg files for 9888 and 4019 using the diet htt mgt builds:
> 
> root at OpenWrt:/lib/firmware/ath10k# cat fwcfg-pci-0000\:01\:00.0.txt
> # For 9888
> vdevs = 8
> peers = 202
> active_peers = 202
> stations = 202
> rate_ctrl_objs = 7
> regdom = 840
> #fwname = firmware-5-htt-mgt-b.bin
> fwver = 5
> nohwcrypt = 0
> ct_sta_mode = 0
> tx_desc = 2200
> #max_nss = 3
> tids = 450
> skid_limit = 360
> max_amsdus = 3
> 
> root at OpenWrt:/lib/firmware/ath10k# cat fwcfg-ahb-a000000.wifi.txt
> vdevs = 8
> peers = 164
> active_peers = 164
> stations = 164
> rate_ctrl_objs = 7
> regdom = 840
> #fwname = firmware-5-htt-mgt-b.bin
> fwver = 5
> nohwcrypt = 0
> ct_sta_mode = 0
> tx_desc = 2000
> #max_nss = 3
> tids = 260
> skid_limit = 360
> max_amsdus = 3
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 

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