It was noticed [1] that the ath10k firmware crashes on 5GHz since OpenWrt
21.02.0. The problem seems to be triggered by the the nonLinearTxFir field
in the 5GHz BDF. If baseEepHeader.nonLinearTxFir (offset 0xc2) is 1 then
the firmware just crashes when setting up the 5Ghz radio using `ifconfig
wlan1 up`:
ath10k_ahb
a800000.wifi: firmware crashed! (guid
9e36ee82-4d2c-4c63-b20b-
609a1eaca30c)
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a800000.wifi: qca4019 hw1.0 target 0x01000000 chip_id 0x003b00ff sub 0000:0000
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a800000.wifi: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 1 testmode 0
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a800000.wifi: firmware ver 10.4-3.6-00140 api 5 features no-p2p,mfp,peer-flow-ctrl,btcoex-param,allows-mesh-bcast,no-ps crc32
ba79b746
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a800000.wifi: board_file api 2 bmi_id 0:17 crc32
5f400efc
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a800000.wifi: htt-ver 2.2 wmi-op 6 htt-op 4 cal pre-cal-file max-sta 512 raw 0 hwcrypto 1
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a800000.wifi: firmware register dump:
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a800000.wifi: [00]: 0x0000000B 0x000015B3 0x009C3C27 0x00975B31
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a800000.wifi: [04]: 0x009C3C27 0x00060530 0x00000018 0x004176B8
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a800000.wifi: [08]: 0x00405A50 0x00412A30 0x00000000 0x00000000
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a800000.wifi: [12]: 0x00000009 0x00000000 0x009B9742 0x009B974F
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a800000.wifi: [16]: 0x00971238 0x009B9742 0x00000000 0x00000000
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a800000.wifi: [20]: 0x409C3C27 0x004053DC 0x00000D2C 0x00405A60
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a800000.wifi: [24]: 0x809C3E13 0x0040543C 0x00000000 0xC09C3C27
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a800000.wifi: [28]: 0x809B9AC5 0x0040547C 0x00412A30 0x0040549C
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a800000.wifi: [32]: 0x809B8ECD 0x0040549C 0x00000001 0x00412A30
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a800000.wifi: [36]: 0x809B8FF3 0x004054CC 0x00412838 0x00000014
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a800000.wifi: [40]: 0x809BEF98 0x0040551C 0x0041627C 0x00000002
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a800000.wifi: [44]: 0x80986D47 0x0040553C 0x0041627C 0x00416A88
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a800000.wifi: [48]: 0x809CBB0A 0x0040559C 0x0041ACC0 0x00000000
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a800000.wifi: [52]: 0x809864EE 0x0040560C 0x0041ACC0 0x00000001
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a800000.wifi: [56]: 0x809CA8A4 0x0040564C 0x0041ACC0 0x00000001
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a800000.wifi: Copy Engine register dump:
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a800000.wifi: [00]: 0x0004a000 14 14 3 3
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a800000.wifi: [01]: 0x0004a400 16 16 22 23
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a800000.wifi: [02]: 0x0004a800 3 3 2 3
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a800000.wifi: [03]: 0x0004ac00 15 15 15 15
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a800000.wifi: [04]: 0x0004b000 4 4 44 4
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a800000.wifi: [05]: 0x0004b400 3 3 2 3
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a800000.wifi: [06]: 0x0004b800 1 1 1 1
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a800000.wifi: [07]: 0x0004bc00 1 1 1 1
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a800000.wifi: [08]: 0x0004c000 0 0 127 0
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a800000.wifi: [09]: 0x0004c400 0 0 0 0
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a800000.wifi: [10]: 0x0004c800 0 0 0 0
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a800000.wifi: [11]: 0x0004cc00 0 0 0 0
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a800000.wifi: failed to update channel list: -108
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a800000.wifi: failed to set pdev regdomain: -108
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a800000.wifi: failed to create WMI vdev 0: -108
ieee80211 phy1: Hardware restart was requested
Since no actual solution is known (besides downgrading the ath10k firmware)
it seems to be better to disable the nonLinearTxFir for now.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/ath10k/
3423718.UToCqzeSYe@ripper/
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
(cherry picked from commit
8b090708208501a60e71d0118b9860dd401d7d8d)