caps2esc VS ec

The original utility actually swaps caps<->esc which I didn't want so if you want Esc to be esc and Caps to be useful then you can check out my fork: https://github.com/ErebusBat/caps2esc

I never use caps... ever, so I slightly tweaked it so that my Esc still works as esc: https://github.com/ErebusBat/caps2esc/commit/99f4becf8aab23e50458c197ae717adba3e4a1cb

You mean this?: https://github.com/system76/ec/blob/930f16b230a1574abddc1cf313c32f1a90c994e9/src/board/system76/lemp11/board.mk

Inexplicably, the built-in curves have a 5 second delay for gazelle. This means, if your chip goes turbo, it will take 5 seconds before the fan will react. By that time, the temperature will have already spiked to 80-90 C. https://github.com/system76/ec/blob/2a8befc195cd821232d2934593d29337e4eddb3e/src/board/system76/gaze17-3060/board.mk

You can change the keyboard layout but not sure if you can replace the physical keyboard easily. https://github.com/system76/ec/blob/master/doc/keyboard-layout-customization.md

If you're wanting to try that out, it's very easy by editing the numbers within the FAN_POINT lines of this file (for your model): https://github.com/system76/ec/blob/master/src/board/system76/gaze17-3060/board.mk

I have the ec repo cloned into a sibling dir. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks for the help!

If it is identical to the Clevo that System76 uses then it may be possible to use their firmware.

This bit of documentation is also helpful, recommends getting the entire firmware-open stack and checking out the current firmware release that you're running and use that as a base for your modifications. This is important because firmware regressions are not uncommon and they often take some time before they are resolved.

As for the tracking issue, you want #213. #256 is my proposal for persisting options through power loss.