12th gen driver updates: No other than Intel's available? Especially for the fingerprint reader, the camera, the USB-C network card...?

[next_to_utter_chaos]

@L_K

So it could be interesting when or if this also ships for Windows.

Getting tired of ping-ponging between versions 334 on Linux and 252 on Windows, I decided to give the driver for the fingerprint reader from Framework Laptop 13 Ryzen 7040 BIOS 3.05 Release and Driver Bundle BETA a chance (something like peazip or 7-zip can open the driver bundle .exe as archive).
It’s possible to install the extracted Goodix driver on the 12th Gen Intel. So far, that seems to stop the downgrade when booting into Windows.

However, I don’t actually use the fingerprint reader in Windows, so I haven’t tested if you need to re-enroll your fingerprints or if there are other unexpected side-effects.

Edit: According to @Ray519 it seems to work fine:

@Ray519

Works for me. Just installing the new Goodix Windows driver upgraded the firmware to 334 globally. Existing Windows fingerprints remained intact as you would expect from a Windows driver upgrade.