Expected to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is the ASUS Armoury "asus-armoury" driver for enhancing support for the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS enthusiast/gaming devices under Linux.
The ASUS Armoury driver was born out of the existing ASUS WMI driver but overhauling it with a clean and more well defined API. The ASUS Armoury driver provides new BIOS attributes using the fw_attributes_class while deprecating all the existing attributes from the ASUS-WMI driver with plans to then remove them in the next Linux LTS kernel version.
ASUS Armoury Driver Set To Be Introduced In Linux 6.19
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Armoury-Driver-Linux-6.19
14 Comments
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 263d
I have an ASUS motherboard and armoury is malware haha
Burghler@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 264d
Is this sort of thing normal for the Linux kernel? I would never expect this to have a place inside it but rather be some seperate module?
Idk kernel design at all, this seems like bloat?
arjache@fedia.io · 20 pts · 264d
It is a module. No need to load it if you don’t have an ASUS.
tabular@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 264d
Linux is a "monolithic kernel" where lots of things like drivers and services are inside it, apprently making it faster than a microkernel.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 264d
Normally it should be quite small. It's just exposing an interface to a few simple bits of hardware.
pastaq@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 262d
It's a driver for the WMI interface, which enables reading and writing various things for the BIOS, such as spl/appt/fppt, some Nvidia GPU settings, etc.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 264d
Oh fucking finally
someacnt@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 263d
Oh, does this mean my ASUS laptop would be supported better?
warm@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 264d
Please kindly fuck off ASUS.
Linearity@piefed.zip · 15 pts · 264d
Wtf why? 😭😭
I’m running Manjaro on my Ally X and am using it as my main device
I’d very much like these drivers to be on it
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 14 pts · 264d
pastaq@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 262d
This driver was produced for free by multiple contributors, none of which were ASUS.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 259d
That's cool.
But I remember it being really hard to install and it would break randomly.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 263d
I assume this is something that will be a flag during compile or something, and only useful for asus hardware, and not something every one will have in all kernels on all hardware?
pastaq@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 262d
It will be enabled by a kernel config option, yes.