watchthelight labs

Upstream scout run, 2026-11-13

Targets: all eleven. Window: 2026-11-11 12:50 UTC to 2026-11-13. Full run with pull requests, no web sweep this time (the last one was two days ago). 33 known repositories had changes and 29 new candidates turned up, 7 of them related. Read from GitHub only; nothing here is reproduced on our machine.

Actionable

  • A ThinkPad E16 user of our XeGfx stack had to relax the hardware cursor check in XeGfxIntelFB, because the firmware framebuffer on that laptop is not at the address the check expects. Our tree has the same fixed test. Next: accept any firmware block that ends below the cursor pages, then test on the Legion. Write-up: xe.
  • The same user runs WTLLegionCpuPower with only the HWP part next to XeGfx, which is the setup we suspect behind our long-run panics. No result is published yet. Next: ask for the status output and any panic.
  • AirportMtkWlan v2.1.0 to v2.1.4 fixed five throughput problems on MT7921 and MT7922. They are now a checklist in our MT7921 backend plan. Write-up: mt7925-wifi.
  • Its v2.1.1 fixes the 60 second "missed beacons" leave on Tahoe the way we did. Next: compare the fields they fill in the link-quality snapshot with ours.
  • ForbiddenItlwm creates a working awdl0 for Intel cards on Tahoe and Sequoia. GPL-2.0, so ideas only, but its description of the macOS side is input for our AWDL work. Write-up: mt7925-wifi-native.
  • AirportMtkWlan #11: an MT7922 that stays dead until AC power is removed, the same class as our warm-restart loss. Our shutdown-hook fix is the right layer; offer the findings once it is tested.

Notable

  • NullMoth: no code after 2.9 and no 2.9.x. A 3.0 beta for macOS 27.2 came out just before the window, untested on laptops. The hybrid laptop report #555 has no answer. Write-up: nvgfx.
  • NullMoth #551: a second Legion reports an empty firmware backlight table. #566: WindowServer time in surface sharing during video playback.
  • A Panther Lake fork of our stack is stuck at stage 4 in the xe memory managers.
  • One Meteor Lake 125H user asked three projects for a picture before WindowServer starts. That is our open question in WTLIntelGfx #9.
  • LenovoLegionLinux 0.1.6 shows CPU power limits on an Arrow Lake HX Legion are set through a Lenovo WMI custom mode. Write-up: legion-efi.
  • owly 0.4.3 is the commit we had already read.

New related projects

Conversations and logs

  • Our issues: no reply owed. WTLWireless #2 was answered on 2026-11-13 and its MT7921 report is filed under logs/seaurching/.
  • No credit changes in this run.

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