TUXEDO Sirius 16 NB04 laptop platform support
Vendor-specific platform glue for TUXEDO Computers' Sirius 16 Gen1 and Gen2 AMD-based gaming and creator laptops, sold from roughly 2024 through 2025. It exposes the machines' per-key RGB keyboard backlight and other firmware features to Linux through the laptop's WMI interface and the standard HID LampArray protocol.
recommendation
It should stay because the code was only just merged upstream in spring 2025 (v9 in April, a Kconfig fix in May) and the Sirius 16 Gen2 was still a current shipping product through 2025. Linux-friendly vendor TUXEDO is actively maintaining the driver, and there is no generic alternative for the keyboard backlight and platform features it exposes, so dropping it would regress real, recently sold hardware.
repository signals
sources
- lwn.net
Patch v9 on 2025-04-25 shows active upstream work for drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04 and creation of the NB04 driver files.
- spinics.net
Patch text states the driver targets TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen1 and Gen2 devices and exposes their per-key RGB keyboard backlight via WMI/LampArray.
- spinics.net
A follow-up patch on 2025-05-12 fixes TUXEDO platform Kconfig, indicating immediate post-introduction maintenance rather than abandonment.
- tuxedocomputers.com
Vendor product page shows Sirius 16 Gen1 as archived and sold out.
- tuxedocomputers.com
Vendor product page shows Sirius 16 Gen2 existed as a shipping product and is now archived, supporting recent real hardware deployment.
codex reasoning notes (technical)
Shell `rg` on the directory showed real WMI/HID driver code for TUXEDO NB04 notebooks, not helper-only code. Web search found LWN/spinics patch traffic from Apr-May 2025, including the initial v9 upstreaming and a follow-up fix, so lore-visible activity is recent and constructive, with no removal evidence found in targeted web lore searches. Web search also found vendor pages for Sirius 16 Gen1/Gen2; both are archived by 2026, but Gen2 was clearly a current shipping product during 2024-2025, so hardware was still sold new in 2025. This is niche laptop hardware, so deployments today are low, but there is no obvious upstream replacement for this vendor-specific WMI keyboard/backlight path.