On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 07:31:06PM +0800, yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips. > rtw88 supports 8822BE and 8822CE chips, and will be able to support > multi-vif combinations in run-time. > > For now, only PCI bus is supported, but rtw88 was originally designed > to optionally support three buses includes USB & SDIO. USB & SDIO modules > will soon be supported by rtw88, with configurable core module to fit > with different bus modules in the same time. > > For example, if we choose 8822BE and 8822CU, only PCI & USB modules will > be selected, built, loaded into kernel. This is one of the major > difference from rtlwifi, which can only support specific combinations. > > Another difference from rtlwifi is that rtw88 is designed to support > the latest Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips like 8822B and > 8822C series. Compared to the earlier chips supported by rtlwifi like > the 802.11n 8192EE chipset or 802.11ac 8821AE/8812AE chips, newer ICs > have different MAC & PHY settings, such as new multi-port feature for the > MAC layer design and Jaguar2/Jaguar3 PHY layer IPs. > > Multi-Port feature is also supported under rtw88's software architecture. > rtlwifi can only support one vif in the same time, most because of the > hardware limitations for early chips, hence the original design of it > also restricts the usage of multi-vif support, so latest chipset seems not > take advantages from its new MAC engine. > > However, rtw88 can run multiple vifs concurrently by holding them on > hardware ports provided by MAC engine, hence can easily start different > roles on a single device. > > Based on the reasons mentioned before, we implemented rtw88. It had many > authors, they are listed here alphabetically: > > Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx> For the series: Reviewed-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>
