linux-firmware/rtw88
Yan-Hsuan Chuang f8d32e4cc9
rtw88: update firmware information and README
The rtw88/README should claim support for RTL8723DE devices, add them.

And also there will have confusion that the 802.11ac driver rtw88
supports an 802.11n device RTL8723DE, add the information to WHENCE.

To prevent some fo the distros not including WOW firmware but have WOW
support and cannot load firmware at the end, add a note for it.

Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@kernel.org>
2020-05-17 14:50:01 -04:00
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README rtw88: update firmware information and README 2020-05-17 14:50:01 -04:00
rtw8723d_fw.bin rtw88: RTL8723D: add firmware file v48 2019-11-04 06:37:16 -05:00
rtw8822b_fw.bin rtw88: Add firmware file for driver rtw88 2018-10-08 09:22:34 -04:00
rtw8822c_fw.bin rtw88: RTL8822C: update rtw8822c_fw.bin to v7.3 2019-08-15 07:34:19 -04:00
rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin rtw88: RTL8822C: add WoW firmware v7.3 2019-08-15 07:34:47 -04:00

README

 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

RTL8723DE
    rtw8723d_fw.bin