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.

all 15 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 22 points 8 months ago

I have an ASUS motherboard and armoury is malware haha

  • source
  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    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?

  • source
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Oh fucking finally

  • source
  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Oh, does this mean my ASUS laptop would be supported better?

  • source
  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Please kindly fuck off ASUS.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    That's cool.
    But I remember it being really hard to install and it would break randomly.

  • source
  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments