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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 3 points 5 months ago

I have an ASUS motherboard and armoury is malware haha

[-] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago

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 3 points 5 months ago

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

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