Enabling Linux Support with Upstream Kernel on Snapdragon X1 Elite SoCs
summary
Upstream kernel is used to bring up Snapdragon X1 Elite hardware and successfully booted Debian with almost mainline 6.9 RC on a Qualcomm QRD to console (console support landed in v6.7), with a public branch posted for Display/GPU. Hardware is 12 Orion cores (up to 3.8 GHz, 4.3 GHz boost), Adreno ~4.6 TF, NPU 45 TOPS, LPDDR5x to 64 GB. About 105 patches (78 posted, 27 pending); primary display, full GPU firmware and Iris video driver rewrite remain to land for end-to-end video and camera.
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- 0:00Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux support
- 1:02Hardware overview
- 3:35Custom Orion CPU performance
- 6:58Software to upstream kernel
- 8:03Boot firmware challenges
- 10:08Upstream kernel status
- 11:36Missing pieces focus
- 13:24Display and GPU progress
- 14:28Video decode updates
- 15:54Audio and camera status
- 17:40Power management
- 19:45Debugging suspend/resume
- 20:26Roadmap next six months
- 22:15Compute reference device
- 23:41Kernel patch overview
- 25:09Windows vs Linux drivers
- 26:46Q&A
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