Ryan's Software Wishlist

This is a list of all sorts of various issues and PRs in software that intrigue me! Will be updated with more as time goes on. Completed items are removed from the list.

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GitHub Quick Links

Note: These only show your own pull requests and issues, not mine :P

• GitHub Pull Requests
• GitHub Issues

Open Source NVIDIA stack - NVK, Nova, Nouveau

Kernel Drivers

• Nouveau source tree
  • Nouveau mailing list
• Nova source tree
  • Nova-core mailing list
  • nova-drm mailing list
  • Nova GPU driver Website

Userspace

• NVK MRs

IDEs, Terminal Things

• Lapce
• Helix
  • Command to open popup as new buffer
  • Add an integrated terminal
  • Yank-path and yank-path-relative
  • Create file in file picker/explorer using alt+o
  • Add command to set register contents
  • Key remapping for compositor components
    • This would allow for eventual extra keybinds for the file picker (hoping for file operations like moving a file, deleting a file, and making a new file)
  • File operations in file explorer
• Zellij
  • Windows support

Image-Based Operating Systems, Flatpak

Flatpak

• Libraries portal
  • My response
• Flatpak Experiments
  • flatpak-rs (experimental)
  • bananapak
  • org.kde.plasma.desktop

Image-Based Stuff

• mkosi
• systemd-sysupdate
• composefs
• composefs-rs
• buildstream
• bootc

Flatpaks For My Apps

• Steam
• KDE App suite
• Winboat

Wayland

• Merge Requests

  • foreign-toplevel-state
  • xdg-pip
  • xdg-surface-shape-v1i

• winewayland.drv MRs

• Wine Wayland driver issues

  • Cross process rendering not supported

• Proton Wayland

• Steam on Wayland Native

KDE Plasma

• Plasma Ocean Icons

COSMIC

• Pop!_OS GitHub
• COSMIC Epoch 1 TODO
• My COPR
• cosmic-packaging

Other distro stuff

KDE Linux

• KDE Linux MRs
• KDE Linux issues

Plasma Mobile

• KDE Plasma mobile
• KDE Plasma mobile issues

Mobile Linux (postmarketOS)

postmarketOS Blog

• pmaports MRs
• pmbootstrap MRs
• Immutable PostmarketOS
• xdg-cutouts

Miscellaneous

• Cline

  • Fix timeout on ollama

• Lenovo Legion WMI Gamezone

• Lenovo Legion WMI Other Mode

Battery bypass over USB C PD seems to work at 100W, but if power output goes over 100W, the battery will start to be used. It’s unknown if the system has awareness of not going over 100W, but it’s likely not, due to the way PPT works with the P-State Driver or the Lenovo WMI Drivers (Using “Other” mode, I can probably tune that though.)

TODO: Make an mdbook for various documentation bits.

Explanation of Lenovo Legion WMI Stuff

So yes, that is true. Currently in the kernel there is support for some WMI GUID's. Of them, only Capability Data 01 is entirely complete.

 
GameZone is providing platform profiles, which correspond to thermal & power profiles. There has been some confusion due to limitations in the kernels platform profile class, so I'm working on a patch to fix that. For the specific implementation details for the latest mainline kernel, I will keep this document maintained: https://docs.kernel.org/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-gamezone.html

Other Method is only providing spl, sppt, and fppt tuning knobs at the moment for AMD based CPU's. Users with Intel hardware may see these attributes, but they will have no effect and will show all 0's for every sub attribute. This will be expanded to cover many more attributes in upcoming kernels along with hiding of unsupported attributes. I will also be adding a fan curve hwmon interface in an upcoming patch, but it isn't yet available. Docs: https://docs.kernel.org/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.html

Events is only providing notifications of Fn+Q switching on more recent models that I was able to test. The older notification event can be added fairly easily if someone affected is able to test kernel patches.

In essence, the built in kernel drivers currently are best suited if you have a relatively recent system and are only intending to use something like the KDE widget to control PPD, or if you have an AMD CPU and want to use custom mode to tune your power levels. 

I'd also note that as far as I'm aware, only the SteamOS UI is currently utilizing the ppt knobs in a GUI, any previous GUI will need an update to use the new sysfs paths as they differ greatly from what LLL provides. I'd recommend that anyone who has a use case outside this fairly limited scope continue to use LLL drivers and blacklist the following modules:
lenovo-wmi-capdata01
lenovo-wmi-events
lenovo-wmi-gamezone
lenovo-wmi-helpers
lenovo-wmi-other