BT/WiFi coex stability issue on RTL8851BE/RTL8852BE

[You-Sheng Yang]

[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)]

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)]

SRU:
* https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2023-November/146789.html (jammy)
* https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2023-November/146790.html (lunar)
* https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2023-November/146791.html (mantic)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

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.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

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.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

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.

[You-Sheng Yang (vicamo)]

verified l-f/mantic version 20230919.git3672ccab-0ubuntu2.4, lunar version 20230323.gitbcdcfbcf-0ubuntu1.9, and jammy version 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.23.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 20230919.git3672ccab-0ubuntu2.4

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linux-firmware (20230919.git3672ccab-0ubuntu2.4) mantic; urgency=medium

  * New Intel MIPI IPU6 firmware available for MTL-P platform (LP: #2043580)
    - SAUCE: Update IPU6EPMTL 20230925 firmware

linux-firmware (20230919.git3672ccab-0ubuntu2.3) mantic; urgency=medium

  * System hang at suspend stress test with WCN6856 WiFi 6E - Qualcomm - 2R8DY (LP: #2042534)
    - SAUCE: WCN6855 hw2.0: 1.1: add WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.30
  * BT/WiFi coex stability issue on RTL8851BE/RTL8852BE (LP: #2042999)
    - rtw89: 8851b: update fw to v0.29.41.3
    - rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.4
    - rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.5
  * missing mei_vsc firmware for HM2172 and OV02E sensor (LP: #2042074)
    - SAUCE: intel-vsc: add HM2172 and OV02E sensor
  * [Intel AX201] Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-hr-b0-83.ucode failed with error -2 (LP: #2042716)
    - iwlwifi: add new FWs from core81-65 release
    - iwlwifi: add a missing FW from core80-39 release

 -- Juerg Haefliger <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:35:50 +0100

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for linux-firmware has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 20230323.gitbcdcfbcf-0ubuntu1.9

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linux-firmware (20230323.gitbcdcfbcf-0ubuntu1.9) lunar; urgency=medium

  * System hang at suspend stress test with WCN6856 WiFi 6E - Qualcomm - 2R8DY (LP: #2042534)
    - SAUCE: WCN6855 hw2.0: 1.1: add WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.30
  * BT/WiFi coex stability issue on RTL8851BE/RTL8852BE (LP: #2042999)
    - rtw89: 8852b: update format-1 fw to v0.29.29.1
    - rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.3
    - rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.4
    - rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.5

 -- Juerg Haefliger <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Nov 2023 10:56:04 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.23

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linux-firmware (20220329.git681281e4-0ubuntu3.23) jammy; urgency=medium

  * System hang at suspend stress test with WCN6856 WiFi 6E - Qualcomm - 2R8DY (LP: #2042534)
    - SAUCE: WCN6855 hw2.0: 1.1: add WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3.6510.30
  * BT/WiFi coex stability issue on RTL8851BE/RTL8852BE (LP: #2042999)
    - rtw89: 8851b: update firmware to v0.29.41.1
    - rtw89: 8851b: update fw to v0.29.41.2
    - rtw89: 8851b: update fw to v0.29.41.3
    - rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.4
    - rtw89: 8852b: update fw to v0.29.29.5
  * missing mei_vsc firmware for HM2172 and OV02E sensor (LP: #2042074)
    - SAUCE: intel-vsc: add HM2172 and OV02E sensor
  * i915: Update DMC, GuC, HuC fw for Meteor Lake (LP: #2036697)
    - i915: update to GuC 70.8.0 and HuC 8.5.1 for MTL
    - i915: Update MTL DMC to v2.13
    - i915: add GSC 102.0.0.1655 for MTL
    - i915: Update MTL DMC to v2.16
    - i915: update MTL HuC to version 8.5.4
    - i915: Update MTL DMC to v2.17
  * New Intel MIPI IPU6 firmware available for MTL-P platform (LP: #2043580)
    - SAUCE: Update IPU6EPMTL 20230925 firmware
  * [Intel AX201] Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-so-a0-hr-b0-83.ucode failed with error -2 (LP: #2042716)
    - iwlwifi: add a missing FW from core80-39 release

 -- Juerg Haefliger <email address hidden> Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:25:37 +0100

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.