Ayn Gaming Handhelds To See Better Linux Assist With New Open-Supply Driver

Ayn is a Chinese model of handheld gaming units which have included Arm-based units transport Android in addition to AMD Ryzen powered handhelds with Windows 11 and even the choice of putting in Ubuntu. Better help for the Ayn x86 gaming handheld units is on the best way with patches posted for a brand new Ayn platform driver for the Linux kernel.

Derek Clark who’s the developer that led work on the Lenovo Legion Go S Linux enhancements and with the upcoming Linux 6.17 can have the Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers mainlined has taken on growing the Ayn platform driver for enhancing the Linux help for these handhelds.

The Ayn platform EC driver for Linux is initially geared for the Ayn Loki and Tectoy Zeenix handheld units. With the platform driver it turns into attainable to manage the followers underneath Linux and to outline customized fan curves. In addition to fan controls, there may be additionally temperature monitoring through the {hardware} monitoring (HWMON) subsystem in addition to RGB lighting controls for the gadget.

The Ayn Loki handheld is powered by the Ryzen 5 6600U with RDNA2 graphics, 8GB or 16GB of RAM, varied NVMe and microSD storage choices, 40.5 Wh battery, and a 16-inch 1080p IPS LCD show.

Those on this work for bettering the Ayn handheld gadget platform help underneath Linux can see this initial patch series for the essential “ayn-ec” driver now underneath evaluation that shall be working its approach towards the mainline kernel.