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Deprecation warning for QCA6174 firmware
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## Wifi Firmware for Surface Go
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On the Surface Go, the standard firmware from the official Linux Firmware repo has issues with the
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`ath10k` QCA6174 Wifi device.
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You will see messages like "Can't ping firmware".
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On the Surface Go, the standard firmware from the official Linux Firmware repo used to have issues
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with the `ath10k` QCA6174 Wifi device.
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The most effective fix to-date is to remove the `board-2.bin` file or replace it with a copy of the
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This was fixed in Nov 2021:
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- https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/542#issuecomment-976995453
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### Background:
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With the older firmware, you would see messages like "Can't ping firmware".
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The most effective fix was to remove the `board-2.bin` file or replace it with a copy of the
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`board.bin` file.
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The derivative in `surface-go/firmware/ath10k/` can configure this, with the
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For more details, see: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Surface-Go#wifi-firmware
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_*NOTE:*_ There's some work to patch the kernel to make it easier to override which firmware file
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to use for QCA6174, which would obviate this more-destructuve approach:
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- https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel/commit/22ef83836c4aa89e9eb98de9b47ed24b6c2a1d45
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_*NOTE:*_ There was an attempt to get this firmware incorporated into the aggregate `board-2.bin`,
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but (as of this writing) the request appears to have been ignored:
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- https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/41
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References:
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- https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface/issues/441
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- https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/e8quqg/surface_go_official_wifi_fix/
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};
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config = mkIf cfg.replace {
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warnings = [''A working version of the ath10k QCA6174 firmware has been added to the kernel.org linux-firmware
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repo, making this fix obsolete.
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See:
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- https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/542#issuecomment-976995453
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- https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Surface-Go#wi-fi-firmware
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NOTE: This module option will probably be removed in the near future.
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''];
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hardware.enableAllFirmware = true;
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hardware.firmware = [
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(pkgs.callPackage ./ath10k-replace.nix {})
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