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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>main
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rtw88 firmware |
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This repository contains firmware images supported by Realtek's wireless |
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driver rtw88. And some of the devices run with more than one firmware |
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file. Basically, a "normal" firmware is necessary to be downloaded to |
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the device. |
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And another is called "wowlan" firmware, it should be loaded when a |
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device is going to suspend. Which means driver will "re-download/swap" |
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the firmware image. The wowlan firmware contains wake up functions that |
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can recognize specific events and send a wake up signal to device if |
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needed, and the system will resume to running state. During resume, |
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driver will then swap the normal firmware back, return to running state. |
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If any distros or platforms do not require wowlan feature, they can |
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_only_ pick the normal firmware. And everything still works fine, |
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except that the device cannot be waken from the wireless NICs. |
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Currently supported devices with corresponding firmwares: |
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RTL8822BE |
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rtw8822b_fw.bin |
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RTL8822CE |
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rtw8822c_fw.bin |
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rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin |
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