Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] wifi: rtw88: preparations for RTL8723B/RTL8723BS

[Luka Gejak <luka.gejak@linux.dev>]

On August 20, 2026 5:11:31 PM GMT+02:00, Peter Robinson
<pbrobinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi Luka,
>
>> >> v7 follows shortly. It is hardware tested: 60 idle pings at 0% loss with
>> >> power save on, bidirectional load with no stall, 19.6 Mbit/s up and 36.8
>> >> down, UDP at 0% loss, three scans, three reconnects and a clean log.
>> >
>> >I had done some basic testing with v5, and had left a v6 to build
>> >overnight. I'll grab this shortly and do a build with v7 and do some
>> >testing.It was generally looking stable on the Pine64+ board I was
>> >using for testing.
>> >
>>
>> Thanks a lot for testing. In my testing changes in v6 and v7 didn't impact
>> performance and v7 should be as stable if not more stable then v5 and v6.
>
>I've literally just booted v7 so it'll take a bit to test it more.
>
>In v5/v6 I saw a bunch of these once it was running for a while, it
>seems to be stable though.
>
>[ 5594.434616] rtw88_8723bs mmc0:0001:1: failed to get tx report from firmware
>[ 5692.223363] rtw88_8723bs mmc0:0001:1: failed to get tx report from firmware
>[ 5747.389804] rtw88_8723bs mmc0:0001:1: failed to get tx report from firmware
>[ 5767.421101] rtw88_8723bs mmc0:0001:1: failed to get tx report from firmware
>

I think these are generic rtw88, not introduced by this driver, but I will
investigate it either way.

>Testing on iperf3 I'm getting just over 2Mbits/sec both TX/RX overall.
>

Hmm, this seems low, are those speeds on staging driver too, as in my
testing they are around 30-40 down and ~20 up.

>> >I think I may also have a device(s) with a 8723cs and/or a 8723ds I
>> >can possibly test with, I'll see if I can remember/find it over the
>> >weekend and get it running for some testing of that too.
>>
>> That would be nice, so we can see if other chips are affected, as Ping-Ke
>> said.
>
>I'll try and work out what I have over the weekend and will do some
>testing against v7 on both devices.

Thanks again.

>
>Peter

Best regards,
Luka Gejak