OpenEmbedded/Yocto Project development layer for out of tree Realtek WiFi Linux kernel drivers

At the moment, only USB drivers are added by this layer as most IoT devices lack support of PCIe and other peripheral connection systems to support other Realtek chipsets.

see more information about Realtek WIFI chipsets

Continuous integration parses the layer and fetches every recipe's upstream source on each push against the following poky branches:

• kirkstone (4.0 LTS)
• scarthgap (5.0 LTS)
• styhead (5.1)
• walnascar (5.2)

The layer declares compatibility (LAYERSERIES_COMPAT_rtlwifi) with kirkstone through wrynose (6.0 LTS); whinlatter and wrynose are tested against openembedded-core directly since the combined poky repository is no longer published for releases after walnascar.

Add the layer to your build configuration:

bitbake-layers add-layer <path-to>/meta-rtlwifi

Then add the driver(s) you want for your machine, e.g. via IMAGE_INSTALL:append or MACHINE_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS:

IMAGE_INSTALL:append = " rtl8821cu"

Issues, patches and pull requests are welcome via GitHub: https://github.com/EmbeddedAndroid/meta-rtlwifi

Maintained by EmbeddedAndroid forcedinductionz@gmail.com.