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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] rtw88: RTL8822C: add WoW firmware v7.3

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On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 6:15 AM Arend Van Spriel
<arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 8/7/2019 11:53 AM, Tony Chuang wrote:
> >> From: Arend Van Spriel [mailto:arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> >>
> >> On 8/7/2019 10:48 AM, yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >>> From: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Add WoW firmware to support entering Wake on WirelessLAN mode
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> v1 -> v2
> >>>      * update WHENCE file for new added firmware
> >>>
> >>>    WHENCE                    |   1 +
> >>>    rtw88/rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin | Bin 0 -> 138720 bytes
> >>>    2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>>    create mode 100755 rtw88/rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin
> >>
> >> Just wondering: Is this a good approach? What firmware should distros
> >> pick? Is there a trade-off affecting other wifi functionality when using
> >> WoW firmware?
> >>
> >
> > If distros want to use WOW, they should pick both.
> >
> > For Realtek devices such as RTL8822CE, it needs to "change/re-download"
> > the wow firmware to suspend with WOW functionalities. When resume,
> > switch back to normal firmware to run "normally".
> >
> > I think the reason is the firmware size restriction. For newer devices,
> > maybe there is a larger space for firmware, and we don't need to swap
> > the FW like this :)
>
> Interesting approach and I would mention this in the commit message or
> add a README in rtw88 folder explaining it. Not sure whether distros
> look at commit messages.

A README would indeed be nice.  Can you do a v3 with that included?

josh



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