Linux 7.5 To Improve Support For Old ASUS Transformer Hybrid Laptops/Tablets

For those that happen to have ASUS Transformer devices as the roughly decade old convertible/hybrid 2-in-1 laptop/tablet computers, the Linux 7.5 kernel in 2027 is improving support for these aging systems powered by either NVIDIA Tegra or Intel Atom SoCs. Queued this week by the multi-function device mfd-next Git branch are new ASUS Transformer drivers finally appearing. This includes drivers for charger control, battery control, LED handling, and drivers for the Transformer dock keyboard, touchpad, and multimedia keys. This is tied into a new driver for the embedded controller (EC) used on ASUS Transformer hardware. Among the specific ASUS Transformer hardware seeing this improved Linux support includes those with the Nuvoton NPCE795-based ECs such as used in ASUS Transformer TF201, TF300T, TF300TG, TF300TL and TF700T pad and dock, as well as TF101 dock and TF600T, P1801-T and TF701T pad. The keyboard and touchpad support fixes the ASUS Dock keycodes as otherwise for some keys they "don't make sense" given their positioning. The multimedia top button row on the ASUS Transformer Mobile Dock keyboard also needs special handling for Linux support. Until the Linux 7.5 merge window opens at the very end of the year, the ASUS Transformer driver patches can be found in the mfd-next Git branch.