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Date:   Wed, 3 Oct 2018 12:15:35 -0400
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 00/12] rtw88: mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac
 wireless network chips
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Is there a public repository where I can track development for this driver?

Thanks,
Zero
On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 4:04 AM <yhchuang@realtek.com> wrote:
>
> From: Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
>
> This is a new mac80211 driver for Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips.
> rtwlan supports 8822BE and 8822CE chips, and will be able to support
> multi-vif combinations in run-time.
>
> For now, only PCI bus is supported, but rtwlan was originally designed
> to optionally support three buses includes USB & SDIO. USB & SDIO modules
> will soon be supported by rtwlan, with configurable core module to fit
> with different bus modules in the same time.
>
> For example, if we choose 8822BE and 8822CU, only PCI & USB modules will
> be selected, built, loaded into kernel. This is one of the major
> difference from rtlwifi, which can only support specific combinations.
>
> Another difference from rtlwifi is that rtwlan is designed to support
> the latest Realtek 802.11ac wireless network chips like 8822B and
> 8822C series. Compared to the earlier chips supported by rtlwifi like
> the 802.11n 8192EE chipset or 802.11ac 8821AE/8812AE chips, newer ICs
> have different MAC & PHY settings, such as new multi-port feature for the
> MAC layer design and Jaguar2/Jaguar3 PHY layer IPs.
>
> Multi-Port feature is also supported under rtwlan's software architecture.
> rtlwifi can only support one vif in the same time, most because of the
> hardware limitations for early chips, hence the original design of it
> also restricts the usage of multi-vif support, so latest chipset seems not
> take advantages from its new MAC engine.
>
> However, rtwlan can run multiple vifs concurrently by holding them on
> hardware ports provided by MAC engine, hence can easily start different
> roles on a single device.
>
> Based on the reasons mentioned before, we implemented rtwlan. It had many
> authors, they are listed here alphabetically:
>
> Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
> Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
> Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
>
>
> v2
>
>  - rename from rtwlan to rtw88
>  - remove lots of magic numbers
>  - add pci null entry for auto load on boot
>  - add rtwdev->mutex to protect against mac80211 callbacks
>  - add rcu lock protection for vif_list and sta_list
>  - refine bits & endian macros to use helper functions provided by kernel
>    instead of create new ones
>  - ieee80211_free_txskb for tx path dropped packets
>  - not register iface_combination since now only one vif is allowed
>  - some fixes suggested by Stanislaw
>
>
> Yan-Hsuan Chuang (12):
>   rtw88: main files
>   rtw88: core files
>   rtw88: hci files
>   rtw88: trx files
>   rtw88: mac files
>   rtw88: fw and efuse files
>   rtw88: phy files
>   rtw88: debug files
>   rtw88: chip files
>   rtw88: 8822B init table
>   rtw88: 8822C init table
>   rtw88: Kconfig & Makefile
>
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/Kconfig               |     1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/Makefile              |     1 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/Kconfig         |    57 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/Makefile        |    19 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/debug.c         |   652 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/debug.h         |    45 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/efuse.c         |   150 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/efuse.h         |    53 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/fw.c            |   638 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/fw.h            |   182 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/hci.h           |   212 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac.c           |  1045 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac.h           |    35 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac80211.c      |   482 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c          |  1133 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h          |  1200 ++
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/pci.c           |  1220 ++
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/pci.h           |   228 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/phy.c           |  1675 ++
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/phy.h           |   125 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/ps.c            |   198 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/ps.h            |    21 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/reg.h           |   404 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/regd.c          |   462 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/regd.h          |    40 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822b.c      |  1593 ++
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822b.h      |   271 +
>  .../net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822b_table.c    | 20783 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822b_table.h    |    18 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822c.c      |  1170 ++
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822c.h      |   416 +
>  .../net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822c_table.c    |  4150 ++++
>  .../net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822c_table.h    |    16 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rx.c            |   144 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rx.h            |    30 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/sec.c           |   135 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/sec.h           |    40 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.c            |   271 +
>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.h            |    81 +
>  39 files changed, 39396 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/Kconfig
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/debug.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/debug.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/efuse.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/efuse.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/fw.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/fw.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/hci.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/mac80211.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/main.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/pci.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/pci.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/phy.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/phy.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/ps.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/ps.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/reg.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/regd.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/regd.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822b.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822b.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822b_table.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822b_table.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822c.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822c.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822c_table.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822c_table.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rx.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rx.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/sec.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/sec.h
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/tx.h
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>