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Bitterblue Smith 70664495e3 wifi: rtl8xxxu: Support new chip RTL8710BU aka RTL8188GU
This chip is found in cheap "free driver" USB adapters from Aliexpress.
Initially they pretend to be a CD-ROM containing the driver for Windows.
"Ejecting" switches the device to wifi mode.

Features: 2.4 GHz, b/g/n mode, 1T1R, 150 Mbps.

This chip is more unique than other Realtek chips:

* The registers at addresses 0x0-0xff, which all the other chips use,
  can't be used here. New registers at 0x8000-0x80ff must be used
  instead. And it's not a simple matter of adding 0x8000: 0x2
  (REG_SYS_FUNC) became 0x8004, 0x80 (REG_MCU_FW_DL) became 0x8090,
  etc.

* Also there are a few new registers which must be accessed indirectly
  because their addresses don't fit in 16 bits. No other chips seem to
  have these.

* The vendor driver compiles to 8188gu.ko, but the code calls the chip
  RTL8710B(U) pretty much everywhere, including messages visible to the
  user.

Another difference compared to the other chips supported by rtl8xxxu is
that it has a new PHY status struct, or three of them actually, from
which we extract the RSSI, among other things. This is not unique,
though, just new. The chips supported by rtw88 also use it.

Signed-off-by: Bitterblue Smith <rtl8821cerfe2@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com> # Edimax N150
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4edbe29f-00b9-8eef-9789-20bed0b141e2@gmail.com
2023-03-20 07:54:42 +02:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2023-03-09 22:22:11 -08:00
block block-6.3-2023-03-03 2023-03-03 10:21:39 -08:00
certs Kbuild updates for v6.3 2023-02-26 11:53:25 -08:00
crypto Networking changes for 6.3. 2023-02-21 18:24:12 -08:00
Documentation dt-bindings: net: ti: k3-am654-cpsw-nuss: Document Serdes PHY 2023-03-10 21:25:01 -08:00
drivers wifi: rtl8xxxu: Support new chip RTL8710BU aka RTL8188GU 2023-03-20 07:54:42 +02:00
fs udf: Warn if block mapping is done for in-ICB files 2023-03-06 16:38:25 +01:00
include wireless-next patches for 6.4 2023-03-10 18:22:29 -08:00
init Kbuild updates for v6.3 2023-02-26 11:53:25 -08:00
io_uring Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2023-03-09 22:22:11 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2023-03-09 22:22:11 -08:00
lib lib: packing: remove MODULE_LICENSE in non-modules 2023-03-09 23:08:04 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm: avoid gcc complaint about pointer casting 2023-03-04 14:03:27 -08:00
net wireless-next patches for 6.4 2023-03-10 18:22:29 -08:00
rust Rust fixes for 6.3-rc1 2023-03-03 14:51:15 -08:00
samples LoongArch changes for v6.3 2023-03-01 09:27:00 -08:00
scripts Remove Intel compiler support 2023-03-05 10:49:37 -08:00
security capability: just use a 'u64' instead of a 'u32[2]' array 2023-03-01 10:01:22 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 6.3-rc1 2023-03-04 10:53:59 -08:00
tools Merge branch 'main' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netfilter/nf-next 2023-03-09 23:28:53 -08:00
usr usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file 2022-10-03 14:21:44 -07:00
virt KVM/riscv changes for 6.3 2023-02-15 12:33:28 -05:00
.clang-format cpumask: re-introduce constant-sized cpumask optimizations 2023-03-05 14:30:34 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for *.dtso files 2023-02-26 15:28:23 +09:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx 2023-02-05 18:51:22 +09:00
.mailmap Networking fixes for 6.3-rc2, including fixes from netfilter, bpf 2023-03-09 10:56:58 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS There is no particular theme here - mainly quick hits all over the tree. 2023-02-23 17:55:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: adjust file entries after wifi driver movement 2023-03-15 11:56:28 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.3-rc1 2023-03-05 14:52:03 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.