Expected to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is the ASUS Armoury “asus-armoury” driver for enhancing support for the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS enthusiast/gaming devices under Linux.
The ASUS Armoury driver was born out of the existing ASUS WMI driver but overhauling it with a clean and more well defined API. The ASUS Armoury driver provides new BIOS attributes using the fw_attributes_class while deprecating all the existing attributes from the ASUS-WMI driver with plans to then remove them in the next Linux LTS kernel version.
I have an ASUS motherboard and armoury is malware haha
Is this sort of thing normal for the Linux kernel? I would never expect this to have a place inside it but rather be some seperate module?
Idk kernel design at all, this seems like bloat?
It is a module. No need to load it if you don’t have an ASUS.
It’s a driver for the WMI interface, which enables reading and writing various things for the BIOS, such as spl/appt/fppt, some Nvidia GPU settings, etc.
Normally it should be quite small. It’s just exposing an interface to a few simple bits of hardware.
Oh, does this mean my ASUS laptop would be supported better?
That’s cool.
But I remember it being really hard to install and it would break randomly.I assume this is something that will be a flag during compile or something, and only useful for asus hardware, and not something every one will have in all kernels on all hardware?
It will be enabled by a kernel config option, yes.
