On 27/10/2020 21:20, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen [off-list ref] writes:

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Note: related issues - workaround compile ath and cfg80211 as modules

(1) https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209863
(2) https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209855
(3) https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209853

Yeah, I had noticed the regdb failure but put off debugging that until
the PCI issue was resolved. So guess that's next on my list - thanks for
the pointer (although I'd rather avoid the module approach as booting
the kernel directly from my build box over tftp is quite convenient...
Let's see if there isn't another way to fix this)

To follow up on this, everything seems to work just fine (ath10k init at
boot + regulatory db load) if I simply set:

CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/board.bin ath10k/QCA988X/hw2.0/firmware-5.bin regulatory.db regulatory.db.p7s"

-Toke

That works on my node only for the regulatory files but not the ath10 
firmware with kconfig:

  Symbol: EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR [=/srv/fw]
  Type  : string
  Defined at drivers/base/firmware_loader/Kconfig:63
    Prompt: Firmware blobs root directory
    Depends on: FW_LOADER [=y] && EXTRA_FIRMWARE [=regulatory.db 
regulatory.db.p7s board.bin firmware-5.bin]!=
    Location:
     -> Device Drivers
       -> Generic Driver Options
         -> Firmware loader
           -> Firmware loading facility (FW_LOADER [=y])
             -> Build named firmware blobs into the kernel binary 
(EXTRA_FIRMWARE [=regulatory.db regulatory.db.p7s board.bin 
firmware-5.bin])

But that is off thread topic anyway and bug lodged 
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209855