I am thinking either I am doing something wrong or that it does not work with the older firmware.
This trick is not working on normal firmwares of S17
you have to be on "Fixed-freq" firmware
2020-05-23 16:15:52 driver-btm-soc.c:3368:init_freq_mode: This is fix-freq version
2020-05-23 16:15:52 driver-btm-soc.c:3967:bitmain_soc_init: S17
2020-05-23 16:15:52 driver-btm-soc.c:3968:bitmain_soc_init: opt_multi_version=1
2020-05-23 16:15:52 driver-btm-soc.c:3969:bitmain_soc_init: opt_bitmain_ab=1
2020-05-23 16:15:52 driver-btm-soc.c:3970:bitmain_soc_init: opt_bitmain_economic_mode=false