Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] brcmfmac: Drop all the RAW device IDs

[Jonas Gorski]

On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 at 07:58, Arend Van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> - stale Cypress emails
>
> On February 5, 2023 3:50:41 AM Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 03/02/2023 02.19, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> >> On February 2, 2023 6:25:28 AM "'Hector Martin' via BRCM80211-DEV-LIST,PDL"
> >> <brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 31/01/2023 23.17, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 12:36, Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> These device IDs are only supposed to be visible internally, in devices
> >>>>> without a proper OTP. They should never be seen in devices in the wild,
> >>>>> so drop them to avoid confusion.
> >>>>
> >>>> I think these can still show up in embedded platforms where the
> >>>> OTP/SPROM is provided on-flash.
> >>>>
> >>>> E.g. https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=55367&p=4
> >>>> shows this bootlog on an BCM4709A0 router with two BCM43602 wifis:
> >>>>
> >>>> [    3.237132] pci 0000:01:00.0: [14e4:aa52] type 00 class 0x028000
> >>>> [    3.237174] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x00007fff 64bit]
> >>>> [    3.237199] pci 0000:01:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x00000000-0x003fffff 64bit]
> >>>> [    3.237302] pci 0000:01:00.0: supports D1 D2
> >>>> ...
> >>>> [    3.782384] pci 0001:03:00.0: [14e4:aa52] type 00 class 0x028000
> >>>> [    3.782440] pci 0001:03:00.0: reg 0x10: [mem 0x00000000-0x00007fff 64bit]
> >>>> [    3.782474] pci 0001:03:00.0: reg 0x18: [mem 0x00000000-0x003fffff 64bit]
> >>>> [    3.782649] pci 0001:03:00.0: supports D1 D2
> >>>>
> >>>> 0xaa52 == 43602 (BRCM_PCIE_43602_RAW_DEVICE_ID)
> >>>>
> >>>> Rafał can probably provide more info there.
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Jonas
> >>>
> >>> Arend, any comments on these platforms?
> >>
> >> Huh? I already replied to that couple of days ago or did I only imagine
> >> doing that.
> >
> > I don't see any replies from you on the lists (or my inbox) to Jonas' email.
>
> Accidentally sent that reply to internal mailing list. So quoting myself here:
>
> """
> Shaking the tree helps ;-) What is meant by "OTP/SPROM is provided
> on-flash"? I assume you mean that it is on the host side and the wifi PCIe
> device can not access it when it gets powered up. Maybe for this scenario
> we should have a devicetree compatible to configure the device id, but that
> does not help any current users of these platforms. Thanks for providing
> this info.

That's what I meant, the wifi chip itself does not have any (valid)
OTP/SPROM attached/populated, and requires the driver to setup the
values at runtime based on the host SoC's flash contents (most likely
NVRAM contents).

This was the case in about 99% of embedded systems based on MIPS
bcm47xx/bcm63xx, where the wifi chips then always identified
themselves with their raw chip IDs as PCI device IDs (even leading to
one or two ID conflicts ...).

I have to admit I don't know how much this is still an issue on
current (ARM) systems, but at least that one BCM4709A one suggests
this is still happening in "recent" designs. Probably because it saves
half a cent per board or so ;-)

Regards
Jonas