More ASUS & HP Laptops See Platform Driver Support For Linux 7.1-rc5
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. …
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. …
… Mir 2.26 also brings working support for the ext image copy capture v1 protocol and draft input-trigger protocols support. …
… Wild Linker 0.9 also now supports the Linker Plug-in API supported by GNU LD and Mold. This provides linker-plugin link time optimization LTO and other extensibility support moving forward. …
… The HP WMI kernel driver meanwhile added support for the Victus 16-r0xxx 8BC2 laptop models. With that the HP 8BC2 laptop now enjoys more hardware controls like ACPI platform profiles, hardware monitoring, and other features under Linux. …
… This new pmtctl tool is for interfacing with Intel Platform Monitoring Technology. Intel's Platform Monitoring Technology PMT is already supported by the mainline Linux kernel while pmtctl is a new convenient tool for dealing with these telemetry metrics. …
… This channel is used to get system measurements over SPDM protocol on Lunar Lake and Panther Lake platform and support for TDX use-cases on future platforms. …
… 4 Comments As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core Ultra laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1 . …
… 7 Comments Hitting the mailing list today are patches providing initial support for AMD's next-gen NPU "AIE4" platform, complete with SR-IOV support. …
… The support added to x86 energy perf policy by Intel engineer Kaushlendra Kumar explains: "Add support for reading and writing SOC slider parameters and platform profile via sysfs in x86 energy perf policy. …
… The AMD Side Band Interface "AMD SBI" driver now has EPYC Venice platform support. The AMD SBI driver is used for various system management features on EPYC servers as part of AMD's Advanced Platform Management Link APML . …