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Originally posted by moriel5 View PostAs for rtlwifi, don't the staging drivers eventually go out of staging to, well, nonstaging?
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Hopefully, these drivers will actually be competent.
As for rtlwifi, don't the staging drivers eventually go out of staging to, well, nonstaging?
So perhaps by Linux 5.2, AirCrack could drop the reliance for the staging drivers.
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Originally posted by Sonadow View PostAre they frikkin' serious? Dropping rtlwifi when rtw88 is not even compatible with 80211abgn?Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostMichael
in the article you said:
"Greg Kroah-Hartman has already removed the "RTLWIFI" driver from the Linux kernel's staging area. So RTW88 is the successor to the long-in-standing RTLWIFI driver. Nuking the RTLWIFI driver code lightened up the staging area by 123,321 lines. "
But I'm not seeing any commit about removing rtlwifi in linux git (last merge from Torvalds 12 hours ago) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/se...i&type=Commits and it would also make 0 sense to remove it as rtw88 does not support the same hardware.
Where did you see this removal happening?
So there are multiple versions of rtlwifi, first there is drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi which is a cleaned up version of realtek's code supporting various older cards. This version is not going anywhere, then there is a newer fork/branch of rtlwifi in drivers/staging/rtlwifi. This new branch (which is quite messy code directly from realtek) supports the RTL8822BE PCIE version and only that chip. That version of rtlwifi is now being dropped since the new rtw88 also supports the RTL8822BE PCIE version, see:
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Originally posted by jtoaspern View PostWhat a shame. At least we still have some Atheros chips where thats not an issue.
Although it's interesting to note that the firmware for the wifi ac from Qualcomm/Atheros is available under NDA and a company called candela tech has made their own blob http://www.candelatech.com/ath10k.php which is usually better than stock and what is used by default now in OpenWrt (router-wifi-embedded-device-oriented distro).
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostNo, firmware blobs are required.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/log/?qt=grep&q=rtw88
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostMichael
in the article you said:
"Greg Kroah-Hartman has already removed the "RTLWIFI" driver from the Linux kernel's staging area. So RTW88 is the successor to the long-in-standing RTLWIFI driver. Nuking the RTLWIFI driver code lightened up the staging area by 123,321 lines. "
But I'm not seeing any commit about removing rtlwifi in linux git (last merge from Torvalds 12 hours ago) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/se...i&type=Commits and it would also make 0 sense to remove it as rtw88 does not support the same hardware.
Where did you see this removal happening?
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Originally posted by jtoaspern View PostDoes this mean we are getting some new linux-libre compatible Wifi cards for notebooks?
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/log/?qt=grep&q=rtw88Last edited by starshipeleven; 02 May 2019, 06:07 AM.
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Michael
in the article you said:
"Greg Kroah-Hartman has already removed the "RTLWIFI" driver from the Linux kernel's staging area. So RTW88 is the successor to the long-in-standing RTLWIFI driver. Nuking the RTLWIFI driver code lightened up the staging area by 123,321 lines. "
But I'm not seeing any commit about removing rtlwifi in linux git (last merge from Torvalds 12 hours ago) https://github.com/torvalds/linux/se...i&type=Commits and it would also make 0 sense to remove it as rtw88 does not support the same hardware.
Where did you see this removal happening?
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