[SRU][PULL][linux-firmware][Jammy] Include the RTL8851BE support

You-Sheng Yang vicamo.yang at canonical.com
Fri Aug 4 07:23:54 UTC 2023


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2029377

[Impact]

Need new firmware and driver for Realtek RTL8851BE WiFi 6 card.

[Fix]

* Bluetooth
  - kernel
    + 9a24ce5e29b1 Bluetooth: btrtl: Firmware format v2 support (v6.4-rc1)
    + 7948fe1c92d9 Bluetooth: btrtl: Add the support for RTL8851B (v6.4-rc1)
  - firmware
    + 53e48f93f rtl_bt: Add firmware and config files for RTL8851B (mantic, v2 binary)
* WiFi
  - kernel
    + f5993f39f3a7 wifi: rtw89: 8851b: update RF radio A parameters to R28 (v6.5-rc1)
    + b067acb1325a wifi: rtw89: 8851b: update TX power tables to R28 (v6.5-rc1)
    + b686bc67e043 wifi: rtw89: 8851b: rfk: add LCK track (v6.5-rc1)
    + 76a7c7acaa78 wifi: rtw89: 8851b: rfk: update IQK to version 0x8 (v6.5-rc1)
    + 076031a09ae9 wifi: rtw89: 8851b: configure to force 1 TX power value (v6.5-rc1)
    + 99ff8da56322 wifi: rtw89: 8851be: add 8851BE PCI entry and fill PCI capabilities (v6.5-rc1)
  - firmware
    + c10facaf1 rtw89: 8851b: add firmware v0.29.41.0 (mantic)

[Test Case]

Check WiFi/Bluetooth basic functionality after installing the firmware with
oem-6.5 kernel.

[Where problems could occur]

New device, may still have issues on stability or power consumptions.

[Other Info]

For our target kernel, linux-oem-6.5, the only thing to be land is commit
53e48f93f ("rtl_bt: Add firmware and config files for RTL8851B") for
linux-firmware for Jammy.

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The following changes since commit 29b75ccf8e74b5064e7f6976924363a68b73b53c:

  UBUNTU: Ubuntu-20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.16 (2023-07-19 10:37:52 +0200)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.launchpad.net/~vicamo/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware bug-2029377/support-RTL8851B/jammy

for you to fetch changes up to 9fd2c4ae5a792892a86ae778a27a5feee0f01278:

  rtw89: 8851b: add firmware v0.29.41.0 (2023-08-02 23:27:08 +0800)

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Max Chou (1):
      rtl_bt: Add firmware and config files for RTL8851B

Ping-Ke Shih (1):
      rtw89: 8851b: add firmware v0.29.41.0

 WHENCE                      |   5 ++++-
 rtl_bt/rtl8851bu_config.bin | Bin 0 -> 6 bytes
 rtl_bt/rtl8851bu_fw.bin     | Bin 0 -> 46376 bytes
 rtw89/rtw8851b_fw.bin       | Bin 0 -> 1090544 bytes
 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 rtl_bt/rtl8851bu_config.bin
 create mode 100644 rtl_bt/rtl8851bu_fw.bin
 create mode 100644 rtw89/rtw8851b_fw.bin



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