That's cool.
But I remember it being really hard to install and it would break randomly.
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I have an ASUS motherboard and armoury is malware haha
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?
It is a module. No need to load it if you don’t have an ASUS.
Linux is a "monolithic kernel" where lots of things like drivers and services are inside it, apprently making it faster than a microkernel.
Normally it should be quite small. It's just exposing an interface to a few simple bits of hardware.
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.
Oh fucking finally
Please kindly fuck off ASUS.
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
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".
This driver was produced for free by multiple contributors, none of which were ASUS.
Oh, does this mean my ASUS laptop would be supported better?
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?
It will be enabled by a kernel config option, yes.