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Dell Bringing Thunderbolt 3 USB-C Support To Linux

Posted by timothy on from the bring-it-faster dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes: A series of posts on the Project Sputnik developers' forum at Dell indicate that hardware on a soon to be released XPS 13 Developer Edition laptop will support Thunderbolt 3 USB Type C, which has been tested on the device with video and USB 3.1 on non-dock devices, although Dell's Type C docks are not yet supported. Intel has already implemented Thunderbolt 3 drivers in the Linux kernel, so this Dell initiative represents a first for a physical implementation on a consumer platform.

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  1. What you are saying is... by Junta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That Intel brought that support to Linux, not Dell. Dell gets credit for preloading Linux, but the subject is misleading, given that Intel did the heavy software lifting.

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    1. Re:What you are saying is... by rahvin112 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Intel should be praised for the extensive Linux development they do. There is a lot of code in the kernel that makes their hardware work that Intel wrote themselves. That's been rare in the past and they deserve praise for it.

  2. Re:Say what? by Junta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is nice and all, but it's not *Dell* bringing it to linux, it's Intel bringing it to Linux, and Dell blessing that via preloading (which by itself isn't so exciting, though it does make an unambiguous statement about expectations around support).

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