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Downloading firmware via BMI protocol takes too long time. For example, a ~700K bytes firmware takes about 500ms to download via BMI protocol. This is too long especially in suspend and resume scenario where firmware is re-downloaded unless WoWLAN is enabled. Downloading firmware via diag CE can reduce the time to ~40ms for a ~700K bytes firmware binary. Ath10k driver parses the firmware to segments and downloads the segments to the specified address directly. If the firmware is compressed or has unsupported segments, ath10k driver will try BMI download again. It's tested with QCA6174 hw3.2 and firmware-6.bin_WLAN.RM.4.4.1-00111-QCARMSWP-1. QCA9377 is also affected. Signed-off-by: Carl Huang <cjhuang@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.