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| author | Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com> | 2019-08-08 16:22:29 +0800 |
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| committer | Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org> | 2019-08-15 07:40:56 -0400 |
| commit | 5621bfcde3676bfe5b48c2cc7325eabec999a8be (patch) | |
| tree | 6391c7071388cc62e70d397f1f44c39e0a28b668 /rtw88/README | |
| parent | 7e431c5dee009cf5efeeb22277eb998872ea1377 (diff) | |
| download | linux-firmware-5621bfcde3676bfe5b48c2cc7325eabec999a8be.tar.gz | |
rtw88: add a README file
Add a README to describe the firmware usage, and support status
[Added to WHENCE by Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>]
Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'rtw88/README')
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diff --git a/rtw88/README b/rtw88/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7ee24b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/rtw88/README @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ + + rtw88 firmware +================ + +This repository contains firmware images supported by Realtek's wireless +driver rtw88. And some of the devices run with more than one firmware +file. Basically, a "normal" firmware is necessary to be downloaded to +the device. +And another is called "wowlan" firmware, it should be loaded when a +device is going to suspend. Which means driver will "re-download/swap" +the firmware image. The wowlan firmware contains wake up functions that +can recognize specific events and send a wake up signal to device if +needed, and the system will resume to running state. During resume, +driver will then swap the normal firmware back, return to running state. + +If any distros or platforms do not require wowlan feature, they can +_only_ pick the normal firmware. And everything still works fine, +except that the device cannot be waken from the wireless NICs. + +Currently supported devices with corresponding firmwares: + +RTL8822BE + rtw8822b_fw.bin + +RTL8822CE + rtw8822c_fw.bin + rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin + |