APPLIED/cmt: [Pull] [Unstable] Add support for Realtek 8723DE wireless adapter

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Sat Mar 21 00:41:22 UTC 2020


On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 07:30:11PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1780590
> 
> [Impact]
> There's no in-kernel support for Realtek 8723DE, so users need to use
> out-of-tree DKMS which is not from Ubuntu archive. This has security
> implication and should be avoided. Also this provides pretty bad user
> experience.
> 
> [Fix]
> Add support to Realtek 8723DE.
> All commits are cherry-picked from Realtek maintained repo:
> https://github.com/rtlwifi-linux/rtw88_8723de
> 
> [Test]
> With the patch series applied, 8723DE can scan and connect to APs
> succesfully. Also did some S3 smoke test, it continues to work.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> Low. The device in question was never supported, and if there's any
> regression, we can count on Realtek Wireless team, thy are now pretty
> responsive on upstream mailing list.
> 
> [Pull]
> The following changes since commit 97a9de9213830cac73cbcd3ff2cc15a6c6dae37f:
> 
>   UBUNTU: [Config] CONFIG_LOCK_DOWN_IN_SECURE_BOOT=y (2020-02-19 13:24:14 -0600)
> 
> are available in the Git repository at:
> 
>   https://git.launchpad.net/~kaihengfeng/linux lp1780590-unstable
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 6c831b2d9cf1715a0427a9bf36ffa3a4ba0bb29a:

Applied, with your sign-off added to the config updates. Thanks!



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