For those that happen to have the Dell G15 5530 laptop or considering this Intel Core i7 13650HX + NVIDIA GeForce RTX high-end laptop, the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is set to have AWCC platform profile support for this model as a nice enhancement. In turn this patch should also be back-ported to future stable Linux kernel point releases.
Dell/Alienware systems on Microsoft Windows have the Alienware Command Center (AWCC) for various controls for these gaming laptops. Under Linux, patches to the kernel last year enabled thermal/power platform profile support built around the AWCC functionality that previously could only be controlled under Windows. The Alienware Command Center software on Linux exposes these user-selectable thermal tables for different power and performance characteristics.
Many Alienware and Dell G-Series laptops are already supported by this addition to the Linux Alienware-WMI driver while sent out today for Linux 6.18 is adding support for the Dell G15 5530 model.
The Dell G15 5530 just needed a patch adding the DMI vendor and product name information to the Alienware-WMI-WMAX driver’s quirk table for properly supporting it. While being sent in today for Linux 6.18 ahead of next weekend’s Linux 6.18-rc3 kernel, the patch is also marked for back-porting to supported stable kernel branches too in the coming days.
This addition was the main highlight of today’s pull request for the platform-drivers-x86 area of the kernel.
