Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform: Enable ACPI WMI and ASUS WMI driver for ARM64

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2026, chipang_kao wrote:

> This series enables ACPI WMI core support and the ASUS WMI platform
> driver on ARM64 architectures.
> 
> ACPI WMI is not limited to x86 platforms. Modern ARM64 laptops and
> platforms have adopted ACPI WMI to expose vendor-specific features
> such as hotkeys and fan control.
> 
> To support these devices:
> 1. Removes the strict 'X86' dependency from CONFIG_ACPI_WMI.
> 2. Updates the ARM64 platform driver infrastructure to allow
>    building the ASUS WMI driver without duplicating source code.
> 
> chipang_kao (2):
>   platform/wmi: Remove X86 dependency for ACPI_WMI
>   platform/arm64: Enable ASUS WMI driver support
> 
>  drivers/platform/arm64/Kconfig  | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/platform/arm64/Makefile |  2 ++
>  drivers/platform/wmi/Kconfig    |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks, but there's already a series to this effect under discussion:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260724025959.142826-1-W_Armin@xxxxxx/

If you have some insight, please comment on that thread.

My hope is that the other series will be ready for merging within this 
kernel cycle.

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 i.