Newer Lenovo ThinkPads are adding the ability to detect and report varying degrees of hardware damage. The Lenovo ThinkPad ACPI driver for Linux is being adapted for being able to communicate said hardware damage to user-space Linux software.
It turns out newer ThinkPads will begin communicating detected hardware damage that can then be parsed by the OS. A new patch to Lenovo’s ThinkPad ACPI open-source driver explains:
“Thinkpads are adding the ability to detect and report hardware damage status. Add new sysfs interface to identify whether hardware damage is detected or not.”
As THE USB-C PD evangelist. I have to say. Fair. Like PD EPD is definitely reaching the limits of the USB-C form factor to me, and data over copper is a dead end at some point too.
Still want ever device I have on it. Though as we scale past the 260 watt range (and I do…) or longer distances (also me) it’s just going to have to be another interface and probably medium for data for the protocol. So far MPO for data and honestly pogo pins for power are the best I’m seeing.
Again for everything thats not a serious power device like well pumps, servers, AC/Heat pump, Power tools, etc or serious data server/client. Its fine, which is seriously impressive.
Rant over I also like the idea of better hardware stats reported to the OS. Its one reason I fell in love with software raid over hardware raid