1 2 rtw88 firmware 3================ 4 5This repository contains firmware images supported by Realtek's wireless 6driver rtw88. And some of the devices run with more than one firmware 7file. Basically, a "normal" firmware is necessary to be downloaded to 8the device. 9And another is called "wowlan" firmware, it should be loaded when a 10device is going to suspend. Which means driver will "re-download/swap" 11the firmware image. The wowlan firmware contains wake up functions that 12can recognize specific events and send a wake up signal to device if 13needed, and the system will resume to running state. During resume, 14driver will then swap the normal firmware back, return to running state. 15 16If any distros or platforms do not require wowlan feature, they can 17_only_ pick the normal firmware. And everything still works fine, 18except that the device cannot be waken from the wireless NICs. 19 20Currently supported devices with corresponding firmwares: 21 22RTL8822BE 23 rtw8822b_fw.bin 24 25RTL8821CE 26 rtw8821c_fw.bin 27 28RTL8822CE 29 rtw8822c_fw.bin 30 rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin 31 32RTL8723DE 33 rtw8723d_fw.bin 34 35