Phoronix’s Michael Larabel writes: With patches pending for creating an Acer Aspire 1 embedded controller driver, this Qualcomm Snapdragon powered ARM laptop computer has “nearly full help” with the upstream Linux kernel. The Acer Aspire 1 (A114-61) is an growing old ARM laptop computer design constructed on the Snapdragon 7c Gen1. It is now not the newest and best with it being a two 12 months previous machine, however for these wanting a low-power and long-battery-life laptop computer, the Acer Aspire 1 nonetheless has some potential for Linux fans.
Over the course of this 12 months this eight-core ARM laptop computer has been seeing work on mainline Linux kernel help. Since Linux 6.5 a lot of that help has been in place whereas some bits stay. Despatched out not too long ago was this patch sequence creating an embedded controller (EC) driver for the Acer Aspire 1. This EC driver will get battery and charger monitoring working together with USB Kind-C DP Alt Mode HPD monitoring, lid standing detection, and a few keyboard configuration. The EC performance on the Acer Aspire 1 is carried out in ACPI however sadly ACPI cant be used in addition Linux on these Qualcomm units — thus resulting in this new “acer-aspire1-ec” driver being created.