History log of /linux-master/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/sar.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# bfbadacf 16-Aug-2023 Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>

wifi: rtw89: sar: let caller decide the center frequency to query

If multiple channels, SAR will be hard to determine the center frequency
to query. Therefore, we move this decision out of SAR.

Signed-off-by: Zong-Zhe Yang <kevin_yang@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230816082133.57474-4-pkshih@realtek.com


# eb2624f5 03-Aug-2023 Kuan-Chung Chen <damon.chen@realtek.com>

wifi: rtw89: Introduce Time Averaged SAR (TAS) feature

Time Averaged SAR (TAS) tracks the amount of transmit power over a
period of time and adjusts the power accordingly. Two thresholds are
used to determine when to increase or reduce transmit power: Dynamic
Power Reduction (DPR) on/off. Compared to Static SAR, which has a
constant transmit power, TAS can improve the user experience or
range extension.

TAS can be enabled through BIOS, and the driver will evaluate
Realtek ACPI DSM with RTW89_ACPI_DSM_FUNC_TAS_EN to determine
whether TAS should be enabled.

Signed-off-by: Kuan-Chung Chen <damon.chen@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kvalo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230804053458.31492-1-pkshih@realtek.com


# e3ec7017 11-Oct-2021 Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@realtek.com>

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