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Linux USB Gadget Driver Being Extended For WebUSB
Linux USB Gadget Driver Being Extended For WebUSB

The Linux USB gadget kernel driver saw a patch published today for exposing of a device's landing page as part of the WebUSB specification. WebUSB as a reminder is the industry standard for providing a JavaScript API to securely access USB devices from web pages and is already supported by the likes of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge.

30 December 2022 - WebUSB - 23 Comments
Linux Patches Posted For Enabling The Aquacomputer Aquaero
Linux Patches Posted For Enabling The Aquacomputer Aquaero

Over the past year we've seen a fair amount of work for enabling support for various Aquacomputer devices under Linux. The German parts vendor specializes in various PC cooling solutions and other cooling accessories that can be monitored and managed under Linux thanks to this open-source driver work.

20 December 2022 - Aquacomputer Aquaero - 3 Comments
OneXPlayer Sensor/Fan Support Extended To More Models With Its Linux 6.2 Introduction
OneXPlayer Sensor/Fan Support Extended To More Models With Its Linux 6.2 Introduction

One of the new hardware drivers set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.2 kernel cycle is the OneXPlayer sensor driver for supporting hardware monitoring on the x86_64-based handheld gaming devices. While OneXPlayer devices ship with Windows by default, Linux is becoming an increasingly sought after target particularly with prospects for running SteamOS.

28 November 2022 - OneXPlayer - 1 Comment
Samsung's Latest Linux Upstreaming Work For The Tesla FSD SoC Is PCIe Support
Samsung's Latest Linux Upstreaming Work For The Tesla FSD SoC Is PCIe Support

At the start of the calendar year Samsung engineers posted Linux patches bringing to enable the Tesla full self-driving "FSD" SoC within the mainline Linux kernel. Linux 5.18 picked up the initial Tesla FSD SoC support and since then other support remnants have continued to be worked on like media functionality. The latest open-source, upstream-focused Tesla FSD SoC work is on enabling PCIe functionality.

26 November 2022 - PCIe For Tesla's Full Self-Driving SoC - Add A Comment
Linux 6.1 Adds Support For The Microsoft Surface Pro 9
Linux 6.1 Adds Support For The Microsoft Surface Pro 9

This week's batch of platform-drivers-x86 "fixes" for the ongoing Linux 6.1 kernel is a bit more notable than usual. In particular, the Surface Pro 9 and Surface Laptop 5 devices are now supported along with some other hardware support enablement.

17 November 2022 - x86 Platform Drivers - 3 Comments
Innovative HID-BPF Expected To Land In Linux 6.2
Innovative HID-BPF Expected To Land In Linux 6.2

Adding to the growing list of changes expected to be sent in during the Linux 6.2 merge window next month is HID-BPF. This is the Red Hat led effort around using eBPF within the HID subsystem for input devices.

15 November 2022 - HID-BPF - 10 Comments
Sony Adds DualShock 4 Controller Support To Their Newer Linux PlayStation Driver
Sony Adds DualShock 4 Controller Support To Their Newer Linux PlayStation Driver

Going back eight years to Linux 3.15 there has been Sony DualShock 4 controller support using the "hid-sony" driver thanks to work from the open-source community. But now Sony is adding DualShock 4 controller support to their newer "hid-playstation" driver that they started for PlayStation 5 controller support and are now extending it backwards for the PS4 controller.

14 November 2022 - DualShock 4 With hid-playstation - 29 Comments
Linux Laptop Backlight Fixes On The Way For v6.1, More Testing Encouraged
Linux Laptop Backlight Fixes On The Way For v6.1, More Testing Encouraged

Last month Red Hat engineer Hans de Goede warned that old and "weird" laptops could see broken backlight controls with the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel. He issued a call for testing and as a result was provided valuable feedback that led to some new fixes now on the way. But there still is more work ahead and he's requested further testing by Linux laptop users to ensure the reworked backlight handling is in good shape.

6 November 2022 - Linux Laptop Backlight Brightness - 2 Comments
Old & Weird Laptops Risk Seeing Broken Backlight Controls With Linux 6.1
Old & Weird Laptops Risk Seeing Broken Backlight Controls With Linux 6.1

As a warning and call for testing, old and "weird" laptops may broken backlight controls when moving to the Linux 6.1 kernel currently under development. Thus if invested in using an old laptop with a modern kernel version, it may be useful trying out a Linux 6.1 release candidate to help spot any regressions early.

27 October 2022 - Old Laptops Regress - Add A Comment
Sony Provides Early Linux Support For The PS5 DualSense Edge Controller
Sony Provides Early Linux Support For The PS5 DualSense Edge Controller

Sony recently announced the DualSense Edge wireless controller for the PlayStation 5 as an "ultra-customizable controller". This $199 USD controller isn't even available for sale until the end of January while already Sony has contributed initial support to their "hid-playstation" open-source Linux kernel driver for supporting the DualSense Edge.

24 October 2022 - Sony DualSense Edge Controller - 17 Comments
Open Firmware DRM Driver "OFDRM" Queuing For Linux 6.2

A first batch of "drm-misc-next" patches have been sent in for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 6.2 merge window comes about in December. With this initial batch of new material for v6.2 is a new Direct Rendering Manager driver: OFDRM.

20 October 2022 - Open Firmware DRM - 2 Comments
Corsair PSU Linux Driver Patched To Work With The New HX1500i PSU
Corsair PSU Linux Driver Patched To Work With The New HX1500i PSU

Corsair this summer launched the HX1500i power supply as the latest in their HX series. The Corsair HX1500i provides three EPS12V connectors, a fully modular design, and as implied by the model is sized for providing 1500 Watts. This $399 USD power supply can now also interface with the Linux kernel for monitoring support.

19 October 2022 - Corsair HX1500i - 6 Comments
LoongArch Picks Up New CPU Capabilities With Linux 6.1
LoongArch Picks Up New CPU Capabilities With Linux 6.1

While initial LoongArch CPU support merged in Linux 5.19, it was still in an immature state and since then missing features and functionality continue to be ironed out. With Linux 6.0 came LoongArch PCI support and other changes while for Linux 6.1 come additional features for this Chinese CPU architecture derived from MIPS64 and some elements of RISC-V.

13 October 2022 - Linux 6.1 LoongArch - 1 Comment
Linux 6.1 Change Aims To Auto-Detect Logitech HID++ High Resolution Scrolling Support
Linux 6.1 Change Aims To Auto-Detect Logitech HID++ High Resolution Scrolling Support

Currently Linux's Logitech HID++ driver "hid-logitech-hidpp" relies on a static list of device quirks for indicating which Logitech mice support high resolution scrolling. With the upcoming Linux 6.1 kernel, the plan is to change that list of devices/quirks and to automatically determine if a device supports high resolution scrolling.

30 September 2022 - Logitech HID++ High-Res Scrolling - 5 Comments
Sound Open Firmware 2.3 Released With Support For AMD Rembrandt, Intel Raptor Lake
Sound Open Firmware 2.3 Released With Support For AMD Rembrandt, Intel Raptor Lake

Sound Open Firmware is what started as an open-source Intel effort to push towards more open sound/DSP firmware and has grown since that point into a Linux Foundation project also supported by other vendors like Mediatek, AMD, Realtek, and others. Sound Open Firmware 2.3 was released on Tuesday as the latest advancement for this open-source audio DSP firmware stack.

21 September 2022 - SOF 2.3 - 5 Comments
System76 Launches Redesigned Thelio Desktop
System76 Launches Redesigned Thelio Desktop

Four years ago System76 launched their Thelio line of Linux desktop computers that are built from scratch and wonderfully by them in their Colorado facility. Today the Linux-focused vendor is announcing their most significant overhaul of the Thelio desktop chassis design to date.

20 September 2022 - System76 Thelio - 10 Comments
Aquacomputer High Flow Next To Be Supported With Linux 6.1
Aquacomputer High Flow Next To Be Supported With Linux 6.1

Added to the mainline Linux kernel last year was a Aquacomputer HWMON driver for initially supporting the German company's water-cooling pump under Linux with access to the fan speed, power, voltage, current, and coolant temperature. Since then that open-source driver developed by the community has been extended to cover an Aquacomputer fan controller and different models. For the Linux 6.1 cycle coming up there are more additions to the Aquacomputer driver.

12 September 2022 - Aquacomputer High Flow Next - 3 Comments
More ASUS ROG Laptop Improvements Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.1
More ASUS ROG Laptop Improvements Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.1

Thanks to the work of independent developer Luke Jones and as part of his Asusctl Linux project, ASUS laptops continue seeing better feature support on Linux and with the v6.1 cycle kicking off in October are more ASUS ROG laptop enhancements that have been readied.

26 August 2022 - ASUS ROG - 1 Comment
Sound Open Firmware 2.2.1 Released With Preparations For Intel Raptor Lake
Sound Open Firmware 2.2.1 Released With Preparations For Intel Raptor Lake

Sound Open Fimware is already four years old as what started out as Intel pushing for more open firmware around audio DSPs. Since then we've seen Mediatek begin to support "SOF" as well as some AMD hardware supporting Sound Open Firmware. Out today is SOF 2.2.1 as the latest from this open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella.

23 August 2022 - Sound Open Firmware 2.2.1 - 2 Comments
Linux Patch Sparks Differing Views Over External Monitor Handling With iGPU vs. dGPU
Linux Patch Sparks Differing Views Over External Monitor Handling With iGPU vs. dGPU

Canonical kernel engineer Kai-Heng Feng posted a patch on Tuesday for capable laptops to switch their external monitor connections to be routed through a laptop's discrete GPU rather than the integrated GPU. With select laptops this can be done with an ACPI call but raises questions among upstream developers rather this change is indeed desirable.

17 August 2022 - Laptop + External Monitor - 68 Comments

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