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Qualcomm Begins Posting Linux Patches For Snapdragon X2 Elite, 8 Elite Gen 5 SoCs

Yesterday at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoCs for upcoming laptops

With those announcements out there, the Qualcomm open-source engineers have been busy in rolling out their latest patches for beginning to enable these new platforms with the Linux kernel. Posted overnight was this 24 patch series for laying out the Device Tree bindings for the Snapdragon X2 Elite "Glymur" SoC as well as enabling the Compute Reference Design (CRD) platform. That work includes:- CPUs with PSCI idle states and cpufreq - Interrupt-controller with PDC wakeup support - Timers, TCSR Clock Controllers - Reserved Shared memory - GCC and RPMHCC - TLMM - Interconnect with CPU BWMONs - QuP with uart - SMMU - RPMHPD and regulator - UFS with inline crypto engine (ICE) - LLCC - Watchdog - cDSP, aDSP with SMP2P and fastrpc - BUS with I2C and SPI - USB2/USB3 - Modem(see crash after bring up) - SoCCP - SDHCI - random number generator (RNG) and Qcrypto - tsens - PCIE - coresight - Bluetooth - WLAN - Audio - CAMSS - Video Plus other related patches for the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 like additional work on PCIe support.

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