Ping-Ke Shih e3ec7017f6 rtw89: add Realtek 802.11ax driver
This driver named rtw89, which is the next generation of rtw88, supports
Realtek 8852AE 802.11ax 2x2 chip whose new features are OFDMA, DBCC,
Spatial reuse, TWT and BSS coloring; now some of them aren't implemented
though.

The chip architecture is entirely different from the chips supported by
rtw88 like RTL8822CE 802.11ac chip. First of all, register address ranges
are totally redefined, so it's impossible to reuse register definition. To
communicate with firmware, new H2C/C2H format is proposed. In order to have
better utilization, TX DMA flow is changed to two stages DMA. To provide
rich RX status information, additional RX PPDU packets are added.

Since there are so many differences mentioned above, we decide to propose
a new driver. It has many authors, they are listed in alphabetic order:

Chin-Yen Lee <timlee@realtek.com>
Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Po Hao Huang <phhuang@realtek.com>
Tzu-En Huang <tehuang@realtek.com>
Vincent Fann <vincent_fann@realtek.com>
Yan-Hsuan Chuang <tony0620emma@gmail.com>
Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>

Tested-by: Aaron Ma <aaron.ma@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211008035627.19463-1-pkshih@realtek.com
2021-10-13 09:01:12 +03:00

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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
config WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK
bool "Realtek devices"
default y
help
If you have a wireless card belonging to this class, say Y.
Note that the answer to this question doesn't directly affect the
kernel: saying N will just cause the configurator to skip all the
questions about these cards. If you say Y, you will be asked for
your specific card in the following questions.
if WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK
source "drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl818x/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/Kconfig"
source "drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/Kconfig"
endif # WLAN_VENDOR_REALTEK