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Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT"


Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality

Intel UEFI provides a user setting to enable or disable THC device WoT feature. If it's enabled, UEFI assigns an additional wake GPIO resource to THC device ACPI configuration, facilitating system wakeup." In addition to enabling Wake-on-Touch support for Intel systems, another patch adds two new THC features specific to upcoming Panther Lake hardware.

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