Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] wifi: rtw88: preparations for RTL8723B/RTL8723BS
From: Peter Robinson
Date: Thu Aug 20 2026 - 11:19:19 EST
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
Testing on iperf3 I'm getting just over 2Mbits/sec both TX/RX overall.
> >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.
Peter