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ASUS Armoury Driver Set To Be Introduced In Linux 6.19 (www.phoronix.com)
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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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[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week 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 1 week ago

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

[–] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.