rtl8192se in staging, firmware in woodhouse tree?

manoj.iyer at canonical.com manoj.iyer at canonical.com
Thu May 6 21:07:22 UTC 2010


I see rtl8192E and not rtl8192SE.


Cheers
--- manjo

On Thu, 6 May 2010, Chase Douglas wrote:

> On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM,  <manoj.iyer at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Roger,
>>
>> Any plans on getting this into gkh staging tree? Last time I had a brief
>> chat with gkh he mentioned that the only criteria required to get stuff
>> into his staging was that it compiled cleanly. Looks like there are a few
>> popular laptops (asus, lenovo) shipping with this wifi. Ubuntu is carrying
>> this driver under ubuntu/ directory in our kernel, ubuntu/ where we put
>> all the drivers that are not upstream and not in staging yet, but is
>> openly available. Also, the firmware needs to go into woodhouse tree.
>
> The firmware is already in Woodhouse's tree. Gkh grabbed it from
> realtek's web site, and I cherry picked his commit to our
> linux-firmware tree. You can find the commit at:
>
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=commit;h=a9799c6dbb173b98215fad9abb3eb6f4d47a188c
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Chase
>




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