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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>
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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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