Linux 6.19 Closing Out 2025 With Several Laptop Additions
A New Year's Eve pull request is ready with several Intel/AMD laptop improvements for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel cycle. An x86 platform drivers pull request sent to Linus Torvalds today brings several notable driver enhancements with expanding the range of supported laptops.
First up the Alienware WMI WMAX driver has added support for the Area-51, x16, and 16X Aurora laptops. This Alienware Linux driver allows platform profile support on Linux, thermal controls, and other functionality. Now if you use any of the Dell-Alienware Area-51, x16, or 16X Aurora laptop models they should now be working with this driver too thanks to new device ID additions. Also on the Dell side, the dell-lis3lv02d driver adds Latitude 5400 support.
The ASUS Armoury driver meanwhile with today's pull request has included TDP data for more ASUS laptop models. This includes support for the ASUS laptop models: G615LR, G835LW, GA403WR, and GU605CR. The ASUS-NB-WMI driver with today's pull request also now supports the display toggle key on the ASUS Zenbook 14 laptop.
Lastly the recently-upstreamed Uniwill driver adds support for the TUXEDO Computers' Tuxedo Book BA15 Gen10. The Tuxedo Book BA15 Gen10 was their first AMD-only Linux laptop design back in the day based around the Ryzen 5 3500U.
The rest of the changes in the platform-drivers-x86 pull request today were various fixes. These changes should be merged soon to Linux 6.19 Git and will be found in next Sunday's Linux 6.19-rc4 kernel release.
First up the Alienware WMI WMAX driver has added support for the Area-51, x16, and 16X Aurora laptops. This Alienware Linux driver allows platform profile support on Linux, thermal controls, and other functionality. Now if you use any of the Dell-Alienware Area-51, x16, or 16X Aurora laptop models they should now be working with this driver too thanks to new device ID additions. Also on the Dell side, the dell-lis3lv02d driver adds Latitude 5400 support.
The ASUS Armoury driver meanwhile with today's pull request has included TDP data for more ASUS laptop models. This includes support for the ASUS laptop models: G615LR, G835LW, GA403WR, and GU605CR. The ASUS-NB-WMI driver with today's pull request also now supports the display toggle key on the ASUS Zenbook 14 laptop.
Lastly the recently-upstreamed Uniwill driver adds support for the TUXEDO Computers' Tuxedo Book BA15 Gen10. The Tuxedo Book BA15 Gen10 was their first AMD-only Linux laptop design back in the day based around the Ryzen 5 3500U.
The rest of the changes in the platform-drivers-x86 pull request today were various fixes. These changes should be merged soon to Linux 6.19 Git and will be found in next Sunday's Linux 6.19-rc4 kernel release.