| alkisg | https://packages.ubuntu.com/rtl8812au-dkms needs a simple backport for xenial. The xenial version works for 4.4, fails for 4.10, and the bionic package works in xenial with 4.10. | 20:05 |
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| alkisg | Should I file an SRU for that? | 20:05 |
| alkisg | Also, what would it take to (1) upgrade the source to a newer version 5.x from the realtek site, | 20:07 |
| alkisg | and (2) to enable support for rtl8821au too? (21 instead of 12). Would another rtl8821au-dkms package need to be made? | 20:08 |
| TJ- | alkisg: I'm sure I already did that a couple months ago! | 20:42 |
| TJ- | alkisg: oh, no, it was the github package: https://github.com/abperiasamy/rtl8812AU_8821AU_linux.git | 20:43 |
| alkisg | TJ-: are you maintaining that github? | 21:25 |
| alkisg | Synching the ubuntu package code with that one would be just fine :) | 21:26 |
| alkisg | indeed 21au works with that | 21:26 |
| TJ- | alkisg: no, I pulled from there and had to add patches as kernel versions moved on. In the end I decided out-of-tree is not worth the effort, and dumped the devices | 21:28 |
| alkisg | Since the realtek source code is GPL, why isn't it in the kernel? | 21:43 |
| alkisg | *upstream? | 21:44 |
| stgraber | because some code is GPL doesn't mean it's good code :) that's usually why some particular module isn't upstream yet, the author has to go through the upstream code review process and possibly have to change quite a bit of their code | 21:53 |
| TJ- | ^^^ the code is terrible | 21:58 |
| alkisg | Ah, I thought it was the same realtek developers that had all the other already upstreamed code... | 22:24 |
| alkisg | (e.g. rtl816x) | 22:25 |
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