BT/WiFi coex stability issue on RTL8851BE/RTL8852BE

Bug #2042999 reported by You-Sheng Yang
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linux-firmware (Ubuntu)
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Jammy
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You-Sheng Yang
Lunar
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You-Sheng Yang
Mantic
Fix Committed
High
You-Sheng Yang

Bug Description

[SRU Justifcation]

[Impact]

On platforms with RTL8851BE/RTL8852BE, bluetooth mouse/keyboard may not work
smoothly with WiFi connection activated.

[Fix]

Proposed firmware upstreamed as:
* 2afd1423e476 ("rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.5")
* 7a916315fb28 ("rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.4")
* 02df6e4f03c0 ("rtw89: 8851b: update fw to v0.29.41.3")

[Test Case]

1. Install Ubuntu 22.04 on SUT with RTL8851BE / 8852BE Wlan card
2. Connected BT KB/MS, and then connected WIFI, select an AP to connect
3. Check BT mouse/keyboard, mouse movement, keyboard key pressing not respond
   smoothly.

[Where problems could occur]

This updates opaque firmware blobs, so anything could happen. With verifications
from multiparties, it improves the stability and no other problem found so far.

[Other Info]

On Lunar, we don't have RTL8851BE enabled, so the related commits are omitted.
On Mantic and oem-6.5/jammy, we have both.

========== original bug report ==========

1.Install Ubuntu 22.04 on SUT with RTL8851BE / 8852BE Wlan card
2.Connected BT KB/MS,and then connected WIFI, select an AP to connect
3.Check BT mouse/keyboard, mouse movement, keyboard key pressing not respond smoothly.

Proposed firmware upstreamed as:
* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=2afd1423e4765eb691711ea5e78a19853cb2f6eb ("rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.5")
* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=7a916315fb2889aa4b89a71b4eb0b18e5d6153a9 ("rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.4")
* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=02df6e4f03c08fe95c8967a69b86d2c1165400d6 ("rtw89: 8851b: update fw to v0.29.41.3")

You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)
description: updated
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You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) wrote :

The proposed commits have been in mainline, and is supposed to be included in linux-firmware/noble some time later.

For Lunar, we don't have RTL8851BE.

You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)
summary: - BT/WiFi coexit stability issue on RTL8851BE/RTL8852BE
+ BT/WiFi coex stability issue on RTL8851BE/RTL8852BE
You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)
tags: added: oem-priority originate-from-2040121 somerville
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You-Sheng Yang (vicamo) wrote :
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Lunar):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Mantic):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Lunar):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Mantic):
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy):
assignee: nobody → You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Lunar):
assignee: nobody → You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Mantic):
assignee: nobody → You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)
description: updated
Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
tags: added: kern-8499
Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Mantic):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Lunar):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello You-Sheng, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into mantic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/20230919.git3672ccab-0ubuntu2.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-mantic to verification-done-mantic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-mantic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Hello You-Sheng, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into lunar-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/20230323.gitbcdcfbcf-0ubuntu1.9 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-lunar to verification-done-lunar. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-lunar. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

Changed in linux-firmware (Ubuntu Jammy):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Hello You-Sheng, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.23 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

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