The [1]Linux 6.11 kernel is expected to be christened as stable tomorrow. Ahead of that stable release one of the last minute "fixes" is adding in another ID for upcoming Intel Arrow Lake processors.

For months already Intel engineers have been building out the [2]Arrow Lake support within the Linux kernel that is largely following existing Meteor Lake driver paths. With Linux 6.11 it appears the base support for Intel Arrow Lake platforms will be in good shape -- at least what I can see from my external monitoring of public patches. We'll see once getting our hands on Intel Arrow Lake processors when released.

Today's last minute addition for Linux 6.11 is adding Arrow Lake support to the Intel pin control driver. This is for the Intel pin control "pinctrl" and GPIO driver support to allow configuring of PCH pins and using them as GPIOs. The Arrow Lake support is tacked onto the existing Meteor Lake pinctrl driver.

[3]This merge adds the one line of new code to the pinctrl-meteorlake driver to get it working on upcoming Arrow Lake. Intel engineers have confirmed it at least for Arrow Lake U and Arrow Lake H processors.

With it being a one-liner just adding a new ID and not risking existing hardware support, it's fine for squeezing in as part of the "fixes" at the last minute for Linux 6.11 rather than having to wait until Linux 6.12.



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

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Arrow+Lake

[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d7c9ec3b07d73cf8a77b44a17f1819c079026ded