A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday’s Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the likes of ASUS, HP, Dell, and OneXPlayer.
Ilpo Järvinen of Intel sent out the x86 platform driver fixes for the week that also include some new hardware support where it is just a matter of new device ID additions and thus safe to land post-merge-window.
When it comes to the ASUS Armoury driver that was upstreamed in Linux 6.19, there is new hardware support. The ASUS FA401UM, G733QS, GX650RX devices are now supported by this asus-armoury platform driver. FA401UM is the ASUS TUF Gaming A14 2025 model for a Ryzen AI 300 series laptop, G733QS is the 2021 ROG Strix SCAR 17 laptop powered by Ryzen 9, and the GX650RX is the ROG Zephyrus Duo 16 2022 powered by the Ryzen 9 6900HX series.
This pull also adds new hardware support to the HP WMI driver. Newly supported laptops for the HP WMI driver are the Omen 14-fb1xxx, 16-xd0xxx and 16-wf0xxx, and Victus-d0xxx.
The Intel HID driver meanwhile has added the Dell 14 and Dell 16 Plus 2-in-1 laptops to the DMI VGBS allow list. THere is also a fix to that driver for enabling the 5-button array on the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16 Gen 1.
Other new hardware support includes extending the OneXPlayer EC driver for now supporting the OneXPlayer X1 Air, X1z, APEX, and Aokzoe A2 Pro devices.
The dell-wmi-sysman driver meanwhile has seen a fix to prevent hex dumping plain text password data.
The Dell Alienware-WMI-WMAX driver has added G-Mode support to the M18 laptops.
More details on this week’s x86 platform driver changes for Linux 7.0-rc3 via this pull request.
