[SRU][PULL][linux-firmware][Jammy] Support Realtek RTL8852CE WiFi 6E/BT Combo

You-Sheng Yang vicamo.yang at canonical.com
Fri Aug 25 17:14:29 UTC 2023


BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2025672

[Impact]

Realtek RTL8852CE WiFi 6E/BT Combo takes new firmware to enable 6E features.

[Fix]

* Bluetooth
  - kernel
    + 8b1d66b50437 Bluetooth: btrtl: Add support for RTL8852C (v5.19-rc1)
    + 9a24ce5e29b1 Bluetooth: btrtl: Firmware format v2 support (v6.4-rc1)
    + bd003fb338af Bluetooth: btrtl: Load FW v2 otherwise FW v1 for RTL8852C
      (linux-next)
  - firmware
    + 8a2d81176 rtl_bt: Add firmware and config files for RTL8852C (jammy)
    + d3c922805 rtl_bt: Update RTL8852C BT USB firmware to 0xDFB8_5A33 (jammy)
    + cfbd66816 rtl_bt: Update RTL8852C BT USB firmware to 0xD5B8_A40A (jammy)
    + c51488ffb rtl_bt: Update RTL8852C BT USB firmware to 0xD7B8_FABF (lunar)
    + 55e744853 rtl_bt: Update RTL8852C BT USB firmware to 0x040D_7225 (mantic,
      change binary format)
    + 7ed62638b Revert "rtl_bt: Update RTL8852C BT USB firmware to 0x040D_7225"
      (mantic)
    + 42d31f8f6 rtl_bt: Add firmware v2 file for RTL8852C (mantic)
* WiFi
  - kernel
    + 59b4cc439f18 wifi: rtw89: debug: Fix error handling in
      rtw89_debug_priv_btc_manual_set() (linux-next)
  - firmware
    + d2aac63b8 rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.1 (jammy)
    + 9e91f0ce6 rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.8 (lunar)
    + c9c19583f rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.9 (lunar)
    + fc5a25fa0 rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.10 (lunar)
    + b9c8e9f70 rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.13 (mantic)

[Test Case]

Basic bluetooth, wifi operations. This is verified with all related
kernel/series combinations:
* linux-hwe5.19/jammy
* linux-hwe-6.2/jammy
* linux-oem-6.0/jammy
* linux-oem-6.1/jammy
* linux-oem-6.5/jammy
* ilnux/mantic

[Where problems could occur]

New device firmware blob, even blob format changes. Expect bugs, power
consumption issues, etc.

[Other Info]

Bluetooth V2 firmware support was first landed to v6.4, and the binary rename in
linux-next now. To preserve consistency, Unstable, Mantic and OEM-6.5 kernels
are nominated for fix. As for linux-firmware, the only target is Jammy.

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The following changes since commit 685e838d111d51ca6d36f803a2202526e0872f9c:

  UBUNTU: Ubuntu-20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.18 (2023-08-15 11:06:25 +0200)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://git.launchpad.net/~vicamo/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware bug-2025672/Realtek-RTL8852CE-WiFi6E-BT-Combo/jammy

for you to fetch changes up to 51ef77cb58d51335108e534dec7596b421e18700:

  rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.13 (2023-08-25 23:53:41 +0800)

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Chin-Yen Lee (2):
      rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.9
      rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.13

Hilda Wu (1):
      rtl_bt: Add firmware v2 file for RTL8852C

Ping-Ke Shih (2):
      rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.8
      rtw89: 8852c: update fw to v0.27.56.10

 WHENCE                     |   1 +
 rtl_bt/rtl8852cu_fw_v2.bin | Bin 0 -> 112953 bytes
 rtw89/rtw8852c_fw.bin      | Bin 1516040 -> 1532736 bytes
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
 create mode 100644 rtl_bt/rtl8852cu_fw_v2.bin



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