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Linux 6.11 Adding Fan Speed / Temperature & Charge Control Drivers For The ChromeOS EC


The Chrome platform changes for Linux 6.11 as code predominantly for enabling Chromebooks with the mainline Linux kernel is set to introduce two new drivers.

Notably this new driver works out for the Framework 13 AMD Ryzen laptop that makes use of the ChromeOS EC and has been successfully tested with this new code. This is now exposed to user-space via sysfs similar to other laptops supporting battery charge thresholds. More details on these two new drivers plus other Chrome platform changes ready for Linux 6.11 can be found via this pull request.

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