QCA9377 requires more IRAM banks for its new firmware

[AceLan Kao]

[Impact]
The new firmware for QCA9377 supports Qualcomm's RED(Radio Equipment Directive) compliance and requires more IRAM banks. The origin 4 banks doesn't fit the new BDF and firmware.

[Fix]
Change the bank number from 4 to 9.

[Regression Potential]
Low, increasing the number of IRAM banks should be no harm.

[Misc]
Currently, both driver patch and new firmware do not upstream yet. For the sake of avoiding dkms package, we can change t
he IRAM bank number before their patch is ready.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-done-xenial'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-xenial' to 'verification-failed-xenial'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-oem - 4.13.0-1021.23

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linux-oem (4.13.0-1021.23) xenial; urgency=low

  * linux-oem: 4.13.0-1021.23 -proposed tracker (LP: #1748481)

  * Intel 9462 A370:42A4 doesn't work (LP: #1748853)
    - SAUCE: iwlwifi: Adding missing id A370:42A4

  * headset mic can't be detected on two Dell machines (LP: #1748807)
    - ALSA: hda/realtek - Support headset mode for ALC215/ALC285/ALC289
    - ALSA: hda - Fix headset mic detection problem for two Dell machines

  * [linux-oem] Use I2C transport for touchpad on Precision M5530 (LP: #1746661)
    - SAUCE: ACPI: Parse entire table as a term_list for Dell XPS 9570 and
      Precision M5530

  * QCA9377 requires more IRAM banks for its new firmware (LP: #1748345)
    - SAUCE: ath10k: change QCA9377 IRAM back to 9

  * TrackPoint: middle button doesn't work on TrackPoint-compatible device.
    (LP: #1746002)
    - Input: trackpoint - force 3 buttons if 0 button is reported

  * [linux-oem] Fix out of bound VBT pin on CNP (LP: #1746411)
    - drm/i914/bios: amend child device config parameters
    - drm/i915/bios: document BDB versions of child device config fields
    - drm/i915/bios: remove the raw version of child device config
    - drm/i915/bios: add legacy contents to common child device config
    - drm/i915/bios: throw away high level child device union
    - drm/i915/bios: throw away struct old_child_dev_config
    - drm/i915/bios: document child device config dvo_port values a bit better
    - drm/i915/bios: group device type definitions together
    - drm/i915/bios: throw away unused DVO_* macros
    - drm/i915/bios: drop the rest of the p_ prefixes from pointers
    - drm/i915/cnl: Don't trust VBT's alternate pin for port D for now.
    - drm/i915/cnl: Map VBT DDC Pin to BSpec DDC Pin.
    - drm/i915/bios: split up iboost to hdmi and dp bitfields
    - drm/i915/bios: add DP max link rate to VBT child device struct
    - drm/i915/cnp: Ignore VBT request for know invalid DDC pin.
    - drm/i915/cnp: Properly handle VBT ddc pin out of bounds.

  * Miscellaneous upstream changes
    - Rebase to 4.13.0-35.39
    - [Config] update configs following rebase to 4.13.0-35.39
    - [oem config] Keep ignoring retpoline

  [ Ubuntu: 4.13.0-35.39 ]

  * linux: 4.13.0-35.39 -proposed tracker (LP: #1748743)
  * CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2 Intel)
    - Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: turn off IBPB when full retpoline is present"
    - SAUCE: turn off IBRS when full retpoline is present
    - [Packaging] retpoline files must be sorted
    - [Packaging] pull in retpoline files

  [ Ubuntu: 4.13.0-34.37 ]

  * linux: 4.13.0-34.37 -proposed tracker (LP: #1748475)
  * libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices (LP: #1743053)
    - libata: apply MAX_SEC_1024 to all LITEON EP1 series devices
  * KVM patches for s390x to provide facility bits 81 (ppa15) and 82 (bpb)
    (LP: #1747090)
    - KVM: s390: wire up bpb feature
  * artful 4.13 i386 kernels crash after memory hotplug remove (LP: #1747069)
    - Revert "mm, memory_hotplug: do not associate hotadded memory to zones until
      online"
  * CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre v2 Intel)
    - x86/feature: Enable the x86 ...

[AceLan Kao (acelankao)]

Upstream commit is here
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10208159/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.15.0-15.16

---------------
linux (4.15.0-15.16) bionic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.15.0-15.16 -proposed tracker (LP: #1761177)

  * FFe: Enable configuring resume offset via sysfs (LP: #1760106)
    - PM / hibernate: Make passing hibernate offsets more friendly

  * /dev/bcache/by-uuid links not created after reboot (LP: #1729145)
    - SAUCE: (no-up) bcache: decouple emitting a cached_dev CHANGE uevent

  * Ubuntu18.04:POWER9:DD2.2 - Unable to start a KVM guest with default machine
    type(pseries-bionic) complaining "KVM implementation does not support
    Transactional Memory, try cap-htm=off" (kvm) (LP: #1752026)
    - powerpc: Use feature bit for RTC presence rather than timebase presence
    - powerpc: Book E: Remove unused CPU_FTR_L2CSR bit
    - powerpc: Free up CPU feature bits on 64-bit machines
    - powerpc: Add CPU feature bits for TM bug workarounds on POWER9 v2.2
    - powerpc/powernv: Provide a way to force a core into SMT4 mode
    - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around transactional memory bugs in POWER9
    - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around XER[SO] bug in fake suspend mode
    - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Work around TEXASR bug in fake suspend state

  * Important Kernel fixes to be backported for Power9 (kvm) (LP: #1758910)
    - powerpc/mm: Fixup tlbie vs store ordering issue on POWER9

  * Ubuntu 18.04 - IO Hang on some namespaces when running HTX with 16
    namespaces (Bolt / NVMe) (LP: #1757497)
    - powerpc/64s: Fix lost pending interrupt due to race causing lost update to
      irq_happened

  * fwts-efi-runtime-dkms 18.03.00-0ubuntu1: fwts-efi-runtime-dkms kernel module
    failed to build (LP: #1760876)
    - [Packaging] include the retpoline extractor in the headers

linux (4.15.0-14.15) bionic; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.15.0-14.15 -proposed tracker (LP: #1760678)

  * [Bionic] mlx4 ETH - mlnx_qos failed when set some TC to vendor
    (LP: #1758662)
    - net/mlx4_en: Change default QoS settings

  * AT_BASE_PLATFORM in AUXV is absent on kernels available on Ubuntu 17.10
    (LP: #1759312)
    - powerpc/64s: Fix NULL AT_BASE_PLATFORM when using DT CPU features

  * Bionic update to 4.15.15 stable release (LP: #1760585)
    - net: dsa: Fix dsa_is_user_port() test inversion
    - openvswitch: meter: fix the incorrect calculation of max delta_t
    - qed: Fix MPA unalign flow in case header is split across two packets.
    - tcp: purge write queue upon aborting the connection
    - qed: Fix non TCP packets should be dropped on iWARP ll2 connection
    - sysfs: symlink: export sysfs_create_link_nowarn()
    - net: phy: relax error checking when creating sysfs link netdev->phydev
    - devlink: Remove redundant free on error path
    - macvlan: filter out unsupported feature flags
    - net: ipv6: keep sk status consistent after datagram connect failure
    - ipv6: old_dport should be a __be16 in __ip6_datagram_connect()
    - ipv6: sr: fix NULL pointer dereference when setting encap source address
    - ipv6: sr: fix scheduling in RCU when creating seg6 lwtunnel state
    - mlxsw: spectrum_buffers: Set a minimum quota for CPU port traffic
    - net: phy: Tell caller result ...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.4.0-128.154

---------------
linux (4.4.0-128.154) xenial; urgency=medium

  * linux: 4.4.0-128.154 -proposed tracker (LP: #1772960)

  * CVE-2018-3639 (x86)
    - x86/cpu: Make alternative_msr_write work for 32-bit code
    - x86/bugs: Fix the parameters alignment and missing void
    - KVM: SVM: Move spec control call after restore of GS
    - x86/speculation: Use synthetic bits for IBRS/IBPB/STIBP
    - x86/cpufeatures: Disentangle MSR_SPEC_CTRL enumeration from IBRS
    - x86/cpufeatures: Disentangle SSBD enumeration
    - x86/cpu/AMD: Fix erratum 1076 (CPB bit)
    - x86/cpufeatures: Add FEATURE_ZEN
    - x86/speculation: Handle HT correctly on AMD
    - x86/bugs, KVM: Extend speculation control for VIRT_SPEC_CTRL
    - x86/speculation: Add virtualized speculative store bypass disable support
    - x86/speculation: Rework speculative_store_bypass_update()
    - x86/bugs: Unify x86_spec_ctrl_{set_guest,restore_host}
    - x86/bugs: Expose x86_spec_ctrl_base directly
    - x86/bugs: Remove x86_spec_ctrl_set()
    - x86/bugs: Rework spec_ctrl base and mask logic
    - x86/speculation, KVM: Implement support for VIRT_SPEC_CTRL/LS_CFG
    - KVM: SVM: Implement VIRT_SPEC_CTRL support for SSBD
    - x86/bugs: Rename SSBD_NO to SSB_NO
    - KVM: VMX: Expose SSBD properly to guests.

  * [i915_bpo] Fix flickering issue after panel change (LP: #1770565)
    - drm/i915: Fix iboost setting for DDI with 4 lanes on SKL
    - drm/i915: Name the "iboost bit"
    - drm/i915: Program iboost settings for HDMI/DVI on SKL
    - drm/i915: Move bxt_ddi_vswing_sequence() call into intel_ddi_pre_enable()
      for HDMI
    - drm/i915: Explicitly use ddi buf trans entry 9 for hdmi
    - drm/i915: Split DP/eDP/FDI and HDMI/DVI DDI buffer programming apart
    - drm/i915: Get the iboost setting based on the port type
    - drm/i915: Simplify intel_ddi_get_encoder_port()
    - drm/i915: Fix iboost setting for SKL Y/U DP DDI buffer translation entry 2
    - drm/i915: KBL - Recommended buffer translation programming for DisplayPort
    - drm/i915: Ignore OpRegion panel type except on select machines

  * [SRU][Bionic/Artful] fix false positives in W+X checking (LP: #1769696)
    - init: fix false positives in W+X checking

  * [Ubuntu 16.04] kernel: fix rwlock implementation (LP: #1761674)
    - SAUCE: (no-up) s390: fix rwlock implementation

  * linux < 4.11: unable to use netfilter logging from non-init namespaces
    (LP: #1766573)
    - netfilter: allow logging from non-init namespaces

  * [LTC Test] Ubuntu 18.04: tm_sigreturn failed on P8 compat mode 16.04.04
    guest (LP: #1771439)
    - powerpc: signals: Discard transaction state from signal frames

  * QCA9377 requires more IRAM banks for its new firmware (LP: #1748345)
    - ath10k: update the IRAM bank number for QCA9377

  * i915/kbl_dmc_ver1.bin failed with error -2 package 1.157.17 kernel
    4.4.0-116-generic (LP: #1752536)
    - ubuntu: i915_bpo - Add MODULE_FIRMWARE for Geminilake's DMC

  * Xenial update to 4.4.131 stable release (LP: #1768825)
    - ext4: prevent right-shifting extents beyond EXT_MAX_BLOCKS
    - ext4: set h_journal if there is a failure...

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel in -proposed solves the problem. Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-bionic' to 'verification-done-bionic'. If the problem still exists, change the tag 'verification-needed-bionic' to 'verification-failed-bionic'.

If verification is not done by 5 working days from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you!

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

This bug was erroneously marked for verification in bionic; verification is not required and verification-needed-bionic is being removed.

[tomcurrann (itomcurrann)]

It seems like you're discussing a technical update related to the QCA9377 firmware, specifically addressing Qualcomm's RED compliance and the need for additional IRAM banks. Here's a breakdown of the information you provided:

Impact:

The new firmware for QCA9377 is designed to comply with Qualcomm's RED (Radio Equipment Directive) standards.
The updated firmware requires more IRAM (Instruction RAM) banks than the original 4 banks provided by the current BDF (Binary Data Format) and firmware.
Fix:

To address the issue, the proposed fix is to change the number of IRAM banks from 4 to 9.
Regression Potential:

The regression potential is described as low. Increasing the number of IRAM banks is not expected to cause harm.
Miscellaneous Information:

Both the driver patch and the new firmware are not yet upstream.
To avoid using dkms package (Dynamic Kernel Module Support), it's suggested to make the change to the IRAM bank number before the patch is ready.
In summary, the proposed fix involves a relatively low-risk change—increasing the number of IRAM banks from 4 to 9—to accommodate the requirements of the new firmware for QCA9377, ensuring compliance with Qualcomm's RED standards. The change is suggested to be implemented before the driver patch and new firmware are upstreamed, and it aims to avoid the use of dkms packages. Answer Source https://www.treasuryprime.com/