… A new x86 platform driver for Linux 7.1 is the Bitland MIFS WMI driver for Bitland laptops to handle ACPI platform profiles, HWMON, keyboard backlight, GPU mode controls, hotkeys, and fan boost handling. …
More ASUS & HP Laptops See Platform Driver Support For Linux 7.1-rc5 Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 23 May 2026 at 06:17 AM EDT. …
… One of the big FreeBSD initiatives in recent time has been their laptop efforts for enhancing this operating system on modern laptops. …
… 3mdeb Gets More Bits Of AMD openSIL & Coreboot Working On Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Coreboot Comes To AMD Ryzen Powered Star Labs StarBook MK VI After 3+ Year Wait 3mdeb Making Progress On AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Port With Coreboot + openSIL Framework 16 Gen1 Seeing Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port, Frame…
… This secondary sound pull also brings fixes for the Audio Advantage Micro II SPDIF, various device-specific quirks for different laptops, and Intel Nova Lake SoF platform name support. …
… This means better performance for these old AMD APUs, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other improvements. - A multi-SDMA engine optimization for AMDGPU with Linux 7.1 . - AMD continues preparing the graphics support for their next-gen hardware like more AMD GFX12.1 enablement . - per-proces… …
… Outside of fixes, there were some new device ID additions to the x86 platform drivers primarily for Intel/AMD laptops. …
… Intel LPMD development seems to have ticked lower this year with the GitHub commits not seeing anything new in one month and not too much activity this year outside of man page updates and build system updates. …
… Linux 7.1-rc5 also brings more HP and ASUS laptops seeing x86 platform driver support , Intel P-State and AMD P-State driver fixes for different issues, and other hardware driver fixes. …
… But these atomic updates didn't quite work out as planned recently with some users finding their system s unbootable. …