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 . …
… This ACPI CPPC v4 support is among the work done by NVIDIA as part of their Vera CPU platform . Other hardware vendors using the common ACPI CPPC code and supporting the CPPC v4 specifications will also be able to benefit from this kernel addition. …
… 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. …