From: "Stefan Lippers-Hollmann" <s.L-H@gmx.de>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: Realtek rtl8188 support?
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:48:13 +0200
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Hi

On Thursday 28 October 2010, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 09/21/2010 02:20 PM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
[...]
> As part of the inclusion of r8712u in staging, Greg KH asked for a TODO item to
> convert the firmware to an external binary. I see this as a 2 step process: (1)
> get the firmware binary accepted into linux-firmware, and (2) make it work with
> the external loading mechanism. Step 1 has been completed with the following
> commit message:
> 
> commit c500ee5be41b7954ba9630d7e5d409a24efaf249
> Author: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> Date:   Wed Oct 20 11:49:59 2010 -0500
> 
>     Convert firmware for Realtek RTL8192SU (rtl8712u) from embedded to
>     an external file.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
> 
> The code for step 2 is running locally. I'm waiting for the new version of
> linux-firmware to propagate through the distros before I submit the patch. If

I assume you refer to rtl8712u.bin in your r8712u_firmware tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/lwfinger/r8712u_firmware.git;a=blob_plain;f=rtl8712u.bin
200fd952db3cc9259b1fd05e3e51966f  *rtl8712u.bin

> you want to grab the new firmware package, I can send you a copy of the patch.

I'd very much like to test the patch(2) needed for rtl8712, if possible.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann