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Running Mainline Linux on Snapdragon 410

Talkat FOSDEM 2022 · on Sunday, 2022-02-06· at 10:15· D.mobile· [linux-and-operating-systems, embedded-and-hardware]

speaker

name:Nikita Travkin

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resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2022/D.mobile/mobile_kernel_snapdragon_410.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/mobile_kernel_snapdragon_410/attachments/slides/5212/export/events/attachments/mobile_kernel_snapdragon_410/slides/5212/FOSDEM22_msm8916.pdf

summary

Covers running mainline Linux on Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (msm8916) devices in postmarketOS by supporting over 25 phones/tablets. Describes practical challenges encountered (boot, device quirks, display init) and solutions including lk2nd shim bootloader to standardize boot/installation, documentation and an automated display driver generator to handle per-display initialization.

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