The x86 platform driver updates were merged last week for the [1]Linux 6.11 merge window. The x86 platform drivers predominantly benefit Intel/AMD laptops on Linux but also some other x86 non-laptop hardware and then more recently also some ARM64 laptop drivers appearing in this area of the kernel.

The x86 platform driver feature highlights for Linux 6.11 include:

- [2]The Dell PC driver adds fan mode controls and platform profile handling with this new "Dell PC Extras" driver.

- The HP WMI driver has fixed ACPI Platform Profile switching on various HP Omen and HP Victus laptops.

- The Intel TPMI driver has wired up [3]Performance Limit Reasons (PLR) support for reporting to user-space [4]why CPU cores may be downclocking or running in a more limited performance state .

- The ASUS WMI driver now handles the Zenbook 2023 camera's LED disable indicator.

- On the ARM side, [5]the Lenovo Yoga C630 embedded controller (EC) driver has been upstreamed for improving the Linux support on that aging Windows on ARM laptop.

More details on these platform-drivers-x86 changes for Linux 6.11 via [6]this pull .



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.11

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-PC-Driver-For-Linux-6.11

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Perf-Limit-Reasons-Linux-6.11

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Perf-Limit-Reasons-Linux

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Yoga-C630-WOS-EC-Driver

[6] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/pdx86-pr-20240716131410-2360330733@linux.intel.com/