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Linux 6.18 Power Management Brings Panther Lake Power Slider & New Drivers

Linux ACPI and power management maintainer Rafael Wysocki today sent out all of the feature updates and changes intended for the now-started Linux 6.18 merge window

There are some new Intel additions as well as for the growing range of different ARM-based SoCs and other hardware. - Updating the Intel P-State driver to allow it to enable Hardware P-States (HWP) without Energy Performance Preference (EPP) when the new Dynamic Efficiency Control (DEC) hardware feature is enabled. - Adding the SoundWire File Table "SWFT" signature to the ACPICA code.

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