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[24.31.245.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c18sm5294443oig.53.2020.03.23.07.54.25 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 23 Mar 2020 07:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH] rtlwifi: v88 firmware files for rtl8192cu To: Reto Schneider Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org References: <20200320025229.12084-1-code@reto-schneider.ch> <83d9a5bb-7802-2fa4-ffff-df318f8ce0e1@lwfinger.net> From: Larry Finger Message-ID: <1d217b53-9090-1e7b-c744-fda914a2a98d@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 09:54:25 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org On 3/22/20 8:51 PM, Reto Schneider wrote: > On 3/20/20 5:00 PM, Larry Finger wrote: >> File rtlwifi/rtl8192cufw.bin is loaded only when the initial firmware >> file is missing or cannot be obtained for some reason. Ideally, it is >> never used, thus you can skip updating it. > > What would constitute the initial firmware? One of the updated three > files? Something that is stored on the chip itself? I should have said "initial choice for firmware" that is based on the chip parameters, and yes that will be one of the three versions. The chip has only enough firmware on it to be able to upload the 802.11n firmware. Only the Realtek 802.11g devices (RTL8187) have on-board firmware. Larry