Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc5 release on Sunday were a few notable x86 platform driver changes. This includes some new hardware support and device quirks.
Today’s x86 platform drivers pull request for Linux 6.17 includes adding Intel Bartlett Lake support to the Intel PMC driver. Bartlett Lake is the upcoming platform for primarily industrial use-cases and feature up to 12 P cores. Bartlett Lake is expected to Raptor Cove P cores and be the last processors on the LGA-1700 socket. The x86 platform PMC driver is for the Intel Power Management Controller. This follows other Bartlett Lake enablement we have seen for the Linux kernel in recent months.
While writing this article and looking for anything new on Bartlett Lake, this work-in-progress whitepaper from Intel.com turned up in the Google search results.
The AMD PMC driver meanwhile adds a device quirk for the TUXEDO IB Pro Gen10 AMD laptop to workaround spurious 8042 quirks.
For the ASUS WMI driver within the platform-drivers-x86 tree there is support for more keys on the ASUS ExpertBook B9 laptop as well as supporting tablet mode and other features on the ASUS ROG Z13.
The HP WMI driver with today’s update meanwhile adds Fn + P hotkey support.
More details on the x86 platform driver changes merged today via this pull request. The code is now in Linux Git ahead of Sunday’s Linux 6.17-rc5 release.
