Linux 5.16 is carrying a lot of new x86 platform driver work, including items such as:
- System76 laptop support improvements including battery charging threshold support for laptops using their open-source EC firmware, reporting of temperatures and fan speeds, and Fn+F2 function behavior for OLED laptop models.
- The HP WMI driver is adding support for HP Omen laptops . This gets fan speed monitoring, ACPI Platform Profile support, HDD temperature reporting, and other features working for those HP gaming laptops.
- NVIDIA's new driver preparations for future laptops with EC-driven backlights .
- The Intel ISH ECLite driver for using EC-like IP for the battery, thermal, UCSI data and more from the platform for systems lacking a discrete EC.
- AMD PMC S0ix improvements for the idle standby power states... This follows ongoing work by AMD this year for improving their s0ix handlinggood suspend-to-idle handling .
- Support for the Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio and initial Microsoft Surface Pro 8 support.
The full list of patches via this PR since merged to mainline.