{"id":216209,"date":"2026-02-20T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/usb-driver-for-google-tensor-socs-ucsi-thunderbolt-alt-mode-in-linux-7-0\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T11:00:10","slug":"usb-driver-for-google-tensor-socs-ucsi-thunderbolt-alt-mode-in-linux-7-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/usb-driver-for-google-tensor-socs-ucsi-thunderbolt-alt-mode-in-linux-7-0\/","title":{"rendered":"USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-USB\">USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-USB\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-USB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-20 05:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All of the Thunderbolt\/USB driver changes were merged this week for the nearly-over Linux 7.0 merge window.<\/p>\n<p>The dwc3 Linux driver for the Synopsys DesignWare USB 3 controller continues seeing a lot of activity each kernel cycle with that USB IP being widely used by different vendors. With Linux 7.0 there is now a Google Tensor SoC glue driver that builds off that DWC3 driver code. This work merged for Linux 7.0 enables the DWC3-based USB controller found on Google Tensor SoCs. This goes along with other Google Tensor SoC upstreaming work that has been going into the mainline kernel.\n<\/p>\n<p>The USB pull for Linux 7.0 also added Microchip LAN969x support, Renesas RZ\/G3E SoC USB support, ASpeed AST2700 support in the aspeed-vhub driver, Socionext Uniphier DWC3 controller support, and other additions.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2022&#038;image=linux_517_usb_med\" alt=\"USB\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Also merged as part of this feature code for Linux 7.0 is adding Thunderbolt Alternate Mode &#8220;Alt Mode&#8221; support to the UCSI driver.<\/p>\n<p>There are also USB Rust binding updates for syntax and formatting changes for those interested in writing USB drivers in the Rust programming language.\n<\/p>\n<p>More details on the USB changes for Linux 7.0 via this pull.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-USB\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USB Driver For Google Tensor SoCs, UCSI Thunderbolt Alt Mode In Linux 7.0 https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-USB Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2022&image=linux_517_usb","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-216209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216211,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216209\/revisions\/216211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}