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Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...