…Hans de Goede posted a request for comments (RFC) on a new patch series implementing what he calls DeviceTree-ACPI hybrid mode. Qualcomm Snapdragon X1/X2 laptops on Linux have relied just…
After Linux 7.1 dropped support for old i486 CPUs and also began removing some old ISA and PCMCIA device drivers, there is some additional old hardware relics being cleared out of…
…A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1 . For the ASUS WMI driver the battery charge threshold is now preserved during the boot process…
…devices in the Device Tree. See the SoC pull requests for all the notable SoC/DT updates that are now in Git for Linux 7.2. ARCTIC Fan Controller, More ASUS & ASRock…
…There are a few other fixes for the core part, but most of them are not-too-serious UAF fixes, while the rest are mostly device-specific fixes and quirks." Checking the…
…a lot of the work revolves around handling device quirks for different laptops. This week there is a keyboard fix for the ASUS Zenbook Duo UX8407AA so that the keyboard is properly…
…Linus Torvalds Linux 7.2 Showing Some Unexpected & Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC Sorano DeviceTree-ACPI Hybrid Mode Proposed For Improving Linux Support On Snapdragon Laptops Linux 7.2 sched_ext…
…16GB of RAM, which is good news considering the ongoing RAM pricing these days. Various improvements are making FEX more applicable on those ARM devices with just 16GB or less of memory…
…New on the power management side for Linux 7.2 is CPUFreq scaling support for the Qualcomm Shikra / QCM2390 entry-level SoC for IoT/embedded devices. Meanwhile on removals, as part of…
…This MediaTek MT7927 (Filogic 380) chipset support has been tested so far across ASUS, Lenovo, Foxconn, and AMD RZ738 hardware variants. This MT7927 chipset is used on a variety of modern laptops…