[ath79][ipq40xx] verify 5GHz on devices using ath10k QCA9888

[Djfe]

This a crossreference to an upstream ticket.
The nvmem-cell rework caused certain devices to not detect (some of) their 5GHz radios correctly. Specifically devices with a chip requiring QCA9888 firmware (wifi5 wave2).
openwrt/openwrt#14541

Affected are likely (untested so far):
TP-Link

• EAP225 variants (outdoor for example)
• Archer C58 v1, C59 v1, C6 v2

ZTE MF281

OpenMesh A62

Plasma Cloud PA2200

(and Linksys Velop WHW03 v1/v2, which we were planning on adding, though I haven't noticed the issue on these while we were testing)

[matjon]

Hello,

I'm unable to test my Tp-Link Archer C59 v1 right now, but on OpenWRT 23.05.5 in dmesg I get:

Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   16.345023] ath10k 5.15 driver, optimized for CT firmware, probing pci device: 0x56.
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   16.354794] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   16.361624] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: pci irq legacy oper_irq_mode 1 irq_mode 0 reset_mode 0
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   18.895374] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: qca9888 hw2.0 target 0x01000000 chip_id 0x00000000 sub 0000:0000
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   18.904962] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: kconfig debug 0 debugfs 1 tracing 0 dfs 1 testmode 0
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   18.924148] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: firmware ver 10.4b-ct-9888-fW-13-5ae337bb1 api 5 features mfp,peer-flow-ctrl,txstatus-noack,wmi-10.x-CT,ratemask-CT,regdump-CT,txrate-CT,flush-all-CT,pingpong-CT,ch-regs-CT,nop-CT,set-special-CT,tx-rc-CT,cust-stats-CT,txrate2-CT,beacon-cb-CT,wmi-block-ack-CT,wmi-bcn-rc-CT crc32 59e741e7
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   19.257555] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: Loading BDF type 0
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.err kernel: [   19.268512] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: failed to fetch board data for bus=pci,bmi-chip-id=0,bmi-board-id=20 from ath10k/QCA9888/hw2.0/board-2.bin
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   19.486912] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: board_file api 1 bmi_id 0:20 crc32 3f3d8ea0
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.warn kernel: [   21.342408] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: 10.4 wmi init: vdevs: 16  peers: 48  tid: 96
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.warn kernel: [   21.350217] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: msdu-desc: 2500  skid: 32
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   21.380347] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: wmi print 'P 48/48 V 16 K 144 PH 176 T 186  msdu-desc: 2500  sw-crypt: 0 ct-sta: 0'
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   21.391723] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: wmi print 'free: 114572 iram: 12644 sram: 29508'
Sat Dec  7 10:14:26 2024 kern.info kernel: [   21.629032] ath10k_pci 0000:00:00.0: htt-ver 2.2 wmi-op 6 htt-op 4 cal pre-cal-file max-sta 32 raw 0 hwcrypto 1

[Djfe]

Maybe I should've specified, that this issue is only happening on OpenWrt 24.10 (or gluon main branch)