Bug 196413

Summary: ath10k: Move firmware loading into user space
Product: Networking Reporter: Paul Menzel (pmenzel+bugzilla.kernel.org)
Component: WirelessAssignee: networking_wireless (networking_wireless)
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 4.13-rc1 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description Paul Menzel 2017-07-18 14:08:29 UTC 
Despite the improvements from 2.2 seconds to 0.5 seconds firmware loading time for the ath10k in the Dell XPS 13 9360 in bug #185621, 0.5 seconds is still too long for resume.

Alternative solution should be thought about, like delaying downloading the firmware to a later “stage”, so that for only a small stub is initialized, and the rest is done from userspace.

[1] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185621