rtw88/README

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   2  rtw88 firmware
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   4
   5 This repository contains firmware images supported by Realtek's wireless
   6 driver rtw88. And some of the devices run with more than one firmware
   7 file. Basically, a "normal" firmware is necessary to be downloaded to
   8 the device.
   9 And another is called "wowlan" firmware, it should be loaded when a
  10 device is going to suspend. Which means driver will "re-download/swap"
  11 the firmware image. The wowlan firmware contains wake up functions that
  12 can recognize specific events and send a wake up signal to device if
  13 needed, and the system will resume to running state. During resume,
  14 driver will then swap the normal firmware back, return to running state.
  15
  16 If any distros or platforms do not require wowlan feature, they can
  17 _only_ pick the normal firmware. And everything still works fine,
  18 except that the device cannot be waken from the wireless NICs.
  19
  20 Currently supported devices with corresponding firmwares:
  21
  22 RTL8822BE
  23     rtw8822b_fw.bin
  24
  25 RTL8821CE
  26     rtw8821c_fw.bin
  27
  28 RTL8822CE
  29     rtw8822c_fw.bin
  30     rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin
  31
  32 RTL8723DE
  33     rtw8723d_fw.bin
  34