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Deprecation warning for QCA6174 firmware

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## Wifi Firmware for Surface Go
On the Surface Go, the standard firmware from the official Linux Firmware repo has issues with the
`ath10k` QCA6174 Wifi device.
You will see messages like "Can't ping firmware".
On the Surface Go, the standard firmware from the official Linux Firmware repo used to have issues
with the `ath10k` QCA6174 Wifi device.
The most effective fix to-date is to remove the `board-2.bin` file or replace it with a copy of the
This was fixed in Nov 2021:
- https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/542#issuecomment-976995453
### Background:
With the older firmware, you would see messages like "Can't ping firmware".
The most effective fix was to remove the `board-2.bin` file or replace it with a copy of the
`board.bin` file.
The derivative in `surface-go/firmware/ath10k/` can configure this, with the
@@ -107,14 +113,6 @@ This is the only way (currently) to force the driver to use the new firmware.
For more details, see: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/wiki/Surface-Go#wifi-firmware
_*NOTE:*_ There's some work to patch the kernel to make it easier to override which firmware file
to use for QCA6174, which would obviate this more-destructuve approach:
- https://github.com/linux-surface/kernel/commit/22ef83836c4aa89e9eb98de9b47ed24b6c2a1d45
_*NOTE:*_ There was an attempt to get this firmware incorporated into the aggregate `board-2.bin`,
but (as of this writing) the request appears to have been ignored:
- https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/41
References:
- https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface/issues/441
- https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/e8quqg/surface_go_official_wifi_fix/