linux-firmware/rtw88
Larry Finger 51e6cf447d linux-firmware: Add ordinary firmware for RTL8821AU device
This firmware was extracted from the 20210708 release of the vendor
driver for this device. The firmware corresponds with the latest
release by Realtek.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
2024-05-21 11:42:17 +00:00
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README linux-firmware: Add ordinary firmware for RTL8821AU device 2024-05-21 11:42:17 +00:00
rtw8703b_fw.bin
rtw8703b_wow_fw.bin
rtw8723d_fw.bin
rtw8821a_fw.bin linux-firmware: Add ordinary firmware for RTL8821AU device 2024-05-21 11:42:17 +00:00
rtw8821c_fw.bin
rtw8822b_fw.bin
rtw8822c_fw.bin
rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin

 rtw88 firmware
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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:

RTL8821AU
    rtw8821a_fw.bin

RTL8822BE
    rtw8822b_fw.bin

RTL8821CE
    rtw8821c_fw.bin

RTL8822CE
    rtw8822c_fw.bin
    rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin

RTL8723DE
    rtw8723d_fw.bin

RTL8723CS/RTL8703B
    rtw8703b_fw.bin
    rtw8703b_wow_fw.bin