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ASUS Armoury Driver Set To Be Introduced In Linux 6.19 (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 5 months ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

I have an ASUS motherboard and armoury is malware haha

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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 points 5 months ago

It is a module. No need to load it if you don’t have an ASUS.

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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 points 5 months ago

Normally it should be quite small. It's just exposing an interface to a few simple bits of hardware.

[–] pastaq@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

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 points 5 months ago

Oh fucking finally

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Oh, does this mean my ASUS laptop would be supported better?

[–] warm@kbin.earth 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Please kindly fuck off ASUS.

[–] Linearity@piefed.zip 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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 points 5 months ago

right? I'm running a Strix laptop and I'm happy they're dropping this. never seen somebody look at a manufacturer adding support for linux and tell them to "fuck off".

[–] pastaq@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

This driver was produced for free by multiple contributors, none of which were ASUS.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 1 points 5 months ago

That's cool.
But I remember it being really hard to install and it would break randomly.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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 points 5 months ago

It will be enabled by a kernel config option, yes.