From: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
To: "luka.gejak@linux.dev" <luka.gejak@linux.dev>,
"linux-firmware@kernel.org" <linux-firmware@kernel.org>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] rtw88: add firmware v41.0.0 for RTL8723B
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 01:31:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9e5ea4e2cf52446fb05ce66c0413d6fb@realtek.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260719180033.66867-1-luka.gejak@linux.dev>
luka.gejak@linux.dev <luka.gejak@linux.dev> wrote:
> From: Luka Gejak <luka.gejak@linux.dev>
>
> Add the RTL8723B NIC firmware image used by the rtw88 driver. Support for
> the RTL8723BS (SDIO) device that uses it is being added to the mainline
> rtw88 driver.
>
> The image was extracted from the Realtek "rtl8723bs" vendor driver,
> version v5.2.17.1_26955.20180307_COEX20180201-6f52, from the C array
> array_mp_8723b_fw_nic[] in hal/rtl8723b/hal8723b_fw.c, using the
> convert_firmware.c tool. A public copy of that vendor driver is at
> https://github.com/MocLG/rtl8723bs-5.2.17
>
> The image reports version 41.0.0 and is covered by the existing Realtek
> redistribution licence (LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt).
>
> Signed-off-by: Luka Gejak <luka.gejak@linux.dev>
I checked firmware binary with official release. They are identical.
Except to a nit below,
Reviewed-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
> ---
> WHENCE | 1 +
> rtw88/rtw8723b_fw.bin | Bin 0 -> 32272 bytes
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
> create mode 100644 rtw88/rtw8723b_fw.bin
>
> diff --git a/WHENCE b/WHENCE
> index 6cfe142d4e91..b4b7e6acda1c 100644
> --- a/WHENCE
> +++ b/WHENCE
> @@ -3352,6 +3352,7 @@ File: rtw88/rtw8822c_fw.bin
> File: rtw88/rtw8822c_wow_fw.bin
> File: rtw88/README
Why not putting rtw8723b_fw.bin here in alphabetic order?
> File: rtw88/rtw8723d_fw.bin
> +File: rtw88/rtw8723b_fw.bin
> File: rtw88/rtw8821c_fw.bin
> File: rtw88/rtw8703b_fw.bin
> File: rtw88/rtw8703b_wow_fw.bin
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2026-07-19 18:00 [PATCH] rtw88: add firmware v41.0.0 for RTL8723B luka.gejak
2026-07-20 1:31 ` Ping-Ke Shih [this message]
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