HP laptop platform WMI and BIOS configuration drivers
Vendor-specific glue that exposes HP laptop features to Linux, including hotkeys, fan and thermal controls, platform profiles, and rfkill on consumer lines like OMEN and Victus, plus a BIOS configuration interface used on HP business machines for enterprise manageability. Also covers older bits like the Compaq TC1100 tablet and the HP laptop accelerometer.
recommendation
It should stay because HP is actively shipping the laptops this code supports — 2025 OMEN 16 models on both Intel and AMD/NVIDIA platforms are still on sale — and upstream developers are still landing new board IDs, with commits adding OMEN 16-wf1xxx support in 2025 and OMEN 16-k0xxx support in 2026. The hp-bioscfg subtree also keeps the directory relevant to enterprise fleet management, not just gaming hardware.
repository signals
sources
- git.kernel.org
The directory contains the active HP WMI laptop driver, including support tables for modern OMEN and Victus boards and features such as thermal/fan/platform-profile handling.
- git.kernel.org
The directory also contains the HP BIOS configuration driver code, indicating current enterprise/manageability use rather than a legacy-only leftover.
- git.kernel.org
Upstream was still adding new hardware support in 2026 via "platform/x86: hp-wmi: Add support for Omen 16-k0xxx (8A4D)".
- git.kernel.org
Upstream was still adding new hardware support in 2025 via "platform/x86: hp-wmi: Add support for Omen 16-wf1xxx (8C76)".
- hp.com
HP was selling OMEN 16 gaming laptops in 2025, matching product lines explicitly supported by hp-wmi.
- hp.com
HP was also selling 2025 OMEN 16 AMD/NVIDIA models, reinforcing that supported HP gaming-laptop families remained current in market.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Keep. Local shell inspection showed real driver code (hp-wmi, hp_accel, tc1100-wmi, hp-bioscfg subtree), and local `git -c safe.directory=... log` showed frequent substantive updates through 2026 with many authors, not a stagnant legacy driver. No removal/deprecation discussion was found from available lore-oriented search attempts; `lei` was unavailable in the environment, and web lore queries returned no hits for removal talk. kernel.org tree/commit URLs were formed from local file paths and commit hashes plus canonical recall of stable git.kernel.org URL patterns. HP OMEN sales pages were obtained via `web.search_query`.