Linux 7.1-rc4 Seeing The Latest Laptop Quirks
([Hardware] 5 Hours Ago
x86 Platform Drivers)
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Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 kernel test release due out on Sunday, a new round of x86 platform driver fixes were submitted for the week.
As quite common for the "fixes" pull requests from the platform-drivers-x86 tree, a lot of the work revolves around handling device quirks for different laptops.
This week there is a keyboard fix for the ASUS Zenbook Duo UX8407AA so that the keyboard is properly handled under Linux for this interesting laptop model.
This dual screen laptop ships with Windows 11 by default but now if you happen to be using this $2499+ laptop, its keyboard will now be playing nicely with Linux 7.1-rc4+.
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.
The Samsung Galaxy Book platform driver with Friday's pull request now handles the keyboard backlight, microphone mute button, and web camera block hotkeys.
More details on these x86 platform driver fixes for the week can be found via [1]this pull that was merged to mainline on Friday.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/pdx86-pr-20260515144750-2668315946@linux.intel.com/
As quite common for the "fixes" pull requests from the platform-drivers-x86 tree, a lot of the work revolves around handling device quirks for different laptops.
This week there is a keyboard fix for the ASUS Zenbook Duo UX8407AA so that the keyboard is properly handled under Linux for this interesting laptop model.
This dual screen laptop ships with Windows 11 by default but now if you happen to be using this $2499+ laptop, its keyboard will now be playing nicely with Linux 7.1-rc4+.
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.
The Samsung Galaxy Book platform driver with Friday's pull request now handles the keyboard backlight, microphone mute button, and web camera block hotkeys.
More details on these x86 platform driver fixes for the week can be found via [1]this pull that was merged to mainline on Friday.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/pdx86-pr-20260515144750-2668315946@linux.intel.com/