System76 ACPI Coreboot Laptop Driver, Huawei Laptop Improvements Sent In For Linux 5.5
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This collection of mostly x86 laptop platform feature drivers and quirk handling has another notable round. New with Linux 5.5 is driver work affecting multiple vendors:
- A System76 driver for handling ACPI with their new Coreboot-loaded laptops.
- The Huawei laptop driver for hotkeys and related functionality now supports newer models. The Huawei driver also now supports Fn-lock, battery charging thresholds, exposing additional information via DebugFS, and other improvements.
- The Intel Speed Select tool (intel-speed-select) that is part of the kernel source tree now supports Intel Cascadelake-N.
- A Bootctl driver for Mellanox BlueField SoC support.
- Temperature / fan control support for the Acer Aspire 7551 laptop.
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