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

[You-Sheng Yang]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 10:59 PM Juerg Haefliger
<juerg.haefliger at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri,  4 Aug 2023 15:23:54 +0800
> You-Sheng Yang <vicamo.yang at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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)
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Max Chou (1):
> >       rtl_bt: Add firmware and config files for RTL8851B
> >
> > Ping-Ke Shih (1):
> >       rtw89: 8851b: add firmware v0.29.41.0
>
> There's an update, don't you want this as well?
>
> 29f185d75c45 rtw89: 8851b: update firmware to v0.29.41.1

This commit was only merged into main on same Aug 4 by merge commit 66c1db82.

$ git show --pretty=fuller 66c1db822
commit 66c1db8224169f76da5fe4a0ab4abf05ef5a021a
Merge: 504694228 29f185d75
Author:     Josh Boyer <jwboyer at kernel.org>
AuthorDate: Fri Aug 4 06:33:19 2023 -0400
Commit:     Josh Boyer <jwboyer at kernel.org>
CommitDate: Fri Aug 4 06:33:19 2023 -0400

And note it's committer date, not publitize date.

I'm at +8 timezone, and that means my email sent at Fri Aug 4 07:23:54
UTC 2023 is at least 3 hours before that merge commit is ever made.
What's the problem?

> ...Juerg
>
>
> >
> >  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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Regards,
You-Sheng Yang