Gigabyte Waterforce AIO Cooler Driver Set To Premiere In Linux 6.8

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Gigabyte Waterforce AIO Cooler Driver Set To Premiere In Linux 6.8

A new driver set to be merged in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle is "gigabyte_waterforce" as a new kernel driver for supporting Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO coolers...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gigabyte-Waterforce-Linux-6.8

[Modu]

These are all unreliable fancy toys: underperformant, noisy, short life...

[DanL]

Waterforce sounds like an Nvidia product. GeForce, nForce, Waterforce..

[domih]

Let's be honest here, Waterforce + RGB brings 25% optimization to my Cassandra cluster because the CPU cores, memory and storage feel I care for their morale.

[pong]

Oh where's the fun in not having these?
Before we had to worry endlessly about memory leaks and spill-overs, even having to invent new languages like RUST / JAVA to prevent them.

Now we can also worry about leaking ON our memory so we'll have something left to fret about..

These are all unreliable fancy toys: underperformant, noisy, short life...

[mxan]

Count on phoronix commenters to be needlessly negative about anything and everything

[cj.wijtmans]

why does this need a driver? its a pump and 3 fans which can be connectedto the mobo and leds which can be connected to the mobo as well.

[oleid]

why does this need a driver? its a pump and 3 fans which can be connectedto the mobo and leds which can be connected to the mobo as well.

Just have a look at the commit. It will answer your question.

[cj.wijtmans]

Just have a look at the commit. It will answer your question.

yep, great information. But the things is all those sensor information could have been gotten from fan PWM. Except for coolant temperature sensors, that is nice information to have but i wonder if its worth it to develop a proprietary usb for that. AIOs have gotten very gimmicky and expensive.

[oleid]

yep, great information. But the things is all those sensor information could have been gotten from fan PWM.

Don't blame the developer that the producing company didn't use conventional means to convey the information.