Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Updates Enable Tiger Lake By Default, OLED Backlight Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.7 Graphics Driver Updates Enable Tiger Lake By Default, OLED Backlight Support

The Linux 5.7 Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted as the kernel graphics driver changes for this next kernel feature release. As usual, there is a lot of work especially on the Intel and AMD Radeon side while nothing was queued for the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.7-Graphics-Drivers

[tildearrow]

Typo:

Support for handling USB-C power delivery f irmware updates.

As if OLED screens had a backlight. :l
Why not call it "brightness control" or something else? It makes no sense...

[Funktronix]

As if OLED screens had a backlight. :l

Made me wonder if they are using white monochromatic OLED panels behind LCDs for localized dimming now. lol