Rugged Emdoor Laptops Beginning To See Improved Linux Support

Emdoor that is a leading manufacturer of rugged laptops and tablets used by various industries is beginning to see improved Linux support thanks to a new platform driver being developed. Initial request for comments (RFC) patches were posted on Friday for an Emdoor Intel EWMI platform driver. This driver in its initial primitive state is focused on supporting the Emdoor Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" powered hardware. There have been driver efforts to improve support for Emdoor hardware with AMD SoCs as well as other unrelated Intel laptops in the past while this new emdoor-intel-wmi driver is focused on the company's latest WMI implementation. With this Emdoor Intel platform driver it's possible to toggle the function key (Fn) lock, Windows key lock state, toggling the device touchpad, setting the auto power-on mode, HWMON fan and EC temperature sensors, the ACPI platform profile configuration, and other attributes. Those with an Intel-powered rugged Emdoor laptop can learn more about this initial RFC driver submission via the kernel mailing list.