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Linux Driver Posted For The EC Found On Most Snapdragon X1 Laptops
For those interested in making use of Linux on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops that have been appearing since earlier this year, there's a new embedded controller (EC) driver posted for the Linux kernel for this EC that's found on most of the X1 laptop models.
This week Maya Matuszczyk posted the set of patches for this proposed qcom-x1e-it8987 for enabling the IT8987 EC used by most of the current Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 laptops. "Currently it features only reporting that the AP is going to suspend, which results in keyboard backlight turning off and the power LED slowly blinking on the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x. So the functionality is just the start and more models will need further work, but an important step forward given the tasks these days assigned to laptop embedded controllers.
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