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Uniwill Laptop Driver Proposed For Linux To Enable Additional Features
For those with a laptop from Taiwanese OEM/ODM manufacturer Uniwill, two new drivers are being proposed to enhance the mainline Linux kernel support for Uniwill laptops by enabling additional functionality to work under Linux.
The proposed WMI and laptop drivers for Uniwill-manufactured laptops aim to enable batter charge limiting, RGB lightbar controls, hardware monitoring (HWMON) support, improved hotkey handling, and other keyboard-related settings. Armin Wolf does note some shortcomings of the Uniwill laptops that make the driver handling a bit more challenging:"The first patch introduces the uniwill-wmi driver used for handling WMI events on Uniwill devices. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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