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rtw88 firmware
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This repository contains firmware images supported by Realtek's wireless
driver rtw88. And some of the devices run with more than one firmware
file. Basically, a "normal" firmware is necessary to be downloaded to
the device.
And another is called "wowlan" firmware, it should be loaded when a
device is going to suspend. Which means driver will "re-download/swap"
the firmware image. The wowlan firmware contains wake up functions that
can recognize specific events and send a wake up signal to device if
needed, and the system will resume to running state. During resume,
driver will then swap the normal firmware back, return to running state.

If any distros or platforms do not require wowlan feature, they can
_only_ pick the normal firmware. And everything still works fine,
except that the device cannot be waken from the wireless NICs.

Currently supported devices with corresponding firmwares:

RTL8812AU
    rtw8812a_fw.bin

RTL8814AE/RTL8814AU
    rtw8814a_fw.bin

RTL8821AU
    rtw8821a_fw.bin

RTL8822BE
    rtw8822b_fw.bin

RTL8821CE
    rtw8821c_fw.bin

RTL8822CE
    rtw8822c_fw.bin
    rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin

RTL8723DE
    rtw8723d_fw.bin

RTL8723CS/RTL8703B
    rtw8703b_fw.bin
    rtw8703b_wow_fw.bin

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