I was directed here from the Manjaro forums, as the request relates to an upstream kernel patch.

The way it stands, Arch/Manjaro are now the most Surface Pro 3 friendly distributions available. I've been running Manjaro 17.01 Gnome for about two weeks now without any issues aside from missing the multitouch functionality of the type cover's touchpad. A patch for this has been availble since kernel 4.3 was the stable kernel, but it seems that pretty much everyone ignores it... I manually patched and installed the 4.9.11 kernel yesterday using this patch from Fedora (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kernel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/XID7IKP46VRVRROZP72MCYKLW5WNELCT/1) and the source from kernel.org, and it brings full functionality to the Surface Pro 3 (perhaps other Surface devices as well, although I don't personally own one to test this.)

Any chance this could get applied to the Arch/Manjaro 4.9 and 4.10 kernels? With such a small change, I think you'd be surprised at how much attention it would bring to these distros, being the only distros that supports the Surface Pro (and possibly other Surface devices) out-of-the-box.