Re: [PATCH v1 1/4] wifi: brcmfmac: Rename Cypress 89459 to BCM4355

From: Arend van Spriel
Date: Wed Jan 04 2023 - 14:26:59 EST

On January 4, 2023 5:35:08 PM Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 04/01/2023 22.29, Arend van Spriel wrote:
On 1/4/2023 11:01 AM, 'Hector Martin' via BRCM80211-DEV-LIST,PDL wrote:
The commit that introduced support for this chip incorrectly claimed it
is a Cypress-specific part, while in actuality it is just a variant of
BCM4355 silicon (as evidenced by the chip ID).

The relationship between Cypress products and Broadcom products isn't
entirely clear, but given what little information is available and prior
art in the driver, it seems the convention should be that originally
Broadcom parts should retain the Broadcom name.

Thus, rename the relevant constants and firmware file. Also rename the
specific 89459 PCIe ID to BCM43596, which seems to be the original
subvariant name for this PCI ID (as defined in the out-of-tree bcmdhd
driver). Also declare the firmware as CLM-capable, since it is.

Fixes: dce45ded7619 ("brcmfmac: Support 89459 pcie")
Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c | 5 ++---
drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c | 8 ++++----
.../net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/include/brcm_hw_ids.h | 6 +++---
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c
index 121893bbaa1d..3e42c2bd0d9a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/chip.c

[...]

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c
index ae57a9a3ab05..3264be485e20 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/pcie.c

[...]

@@ -2590,6 +2590,7 @@ static const struct pci_device_id brcmf_pcie_devid_table[] = {
BRCMF_PCIE_DEVICE(BRCM_PCIE_4350_DEVICE_ID, WCC),
BRCMF_PCIE_DEVICE_SUB(0x4355, BRCM_PCIE_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM, 0x4355, WCC),
BRCMF_PCIE_DEVICE(BRCM_PCIE_4354_RAW_DEVICE_ID, WCC),
+ BRCMF_PCIE_DEVICE(BRCM_PCIE_4355_RAW_DEVICE_ID, WCC),

A bit of a problem here. If Cypress want to support this device,
regardless how they branded it, they will provide its firmware. Given
that they initially added it (as 89459) I suppose we should mark it with
CYW and not WCC. Actually, see my comment below on RAW dev ids.

Right, I thought we might wind up with this issue. So then the question
becomes: can we give responsibility over PCI ID 0x4415 to Cypress and
mark just that one as CYW (if so it probably makes sense to keep that
labeled CYW89459 instead of BCM43596), and if not, is there some other
way to tell apart Cypress and Broadcom products we can use? I believe
the Apple side firmware is developed by Broadcom, not Cypress.

Note that even if we split by PCI device ID here, we still have a
problem with firmware selection, since that means we're requesting the
same firmware filename for both vendors (since that only tests the chip
ID and revision ID). If Apple is the *only* Broadcom customer using
these chips then we can get away with this, since I can just make sure
the fancy Apple firmware selection will never collide with the vanilla
firmware filename. But if other customers of both companies are both
shipping the same chip with different and incompatible generic firmware,
we need some way to tell them apart.

AFAIK Apple chips are exclusive. The vendor marking was added by recent patch series I worked on. So per device id we assign the vendor. If needed we can use subvendor or subdevid to separate them appropriately.




BRCMF_PCIE_DEVICE(BRCM_PCIE_4356_DEVICE_ID, WCC),
BRCMF_PCIE_DEVICE(BRCM_PCIE_43567_DEVICE_ID, WCC),
BRCMF_PCIE_DEVICE(BRCM_PCIE_43570_DEVICE_ID, WCC),

[...]

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/include/brcm_hw_ids.h b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/include/brcm_hw_ids.h
index f4939cf62767..cacc43db86eb 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/include/brcm_hw_ids.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/include/brcm_hw_ids.h

[...]

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
#define BRCM_PCIE_4350_DEVICE_ID 0x43a3
#define BRCM_PCIE_4354_DEVICE_ID 0x43df
#define BRCM_PCIE_4354_RAW_DEVICE_ID 0x4354
+#define BRCM_PCIE_4355_RAW_DEVICE_ID 0x4355

I would remove all RAW device ids. These should not be observed outside
chip vendor walls.

Ack, I'll remove this one instead of renaming it (or I can just drop all
the existing RAW IDs first in one commit at the head of v2 if you prefer
that).

Let's drop the existing RAW IDs with a separate patch explaining why ;-)

Regards,
Arend


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