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With the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can boot on the mainline kernel, the Snapdragon-powered ThinkPad X13s has been popular with Linux developers thanks to the upstream support, and other Qualcomm-powered devices tending to play more nicely with upstream Linux these days rather than having to resort to vendor kernel builds. Neil Armstrong with Linaro presented at FOSDEM 2024 last week in Brussels around the mainline support on Qualcomm SoCs. Armstrong noted all the work over the past decade on Qualcomm support and ultimately how with Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 they reached the point of upstream support in just two months after the public Qualcomm announcement of the platform. Neil Armstrong's slides on FOSDEM Qualcomm support With the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 on Linux 6.8 there is working display, USB-C, USB / PCIe / Bluetooth, CPU frequency scaling, suspend/resume and even crypto accelerator support. But still a work-in-progress is audio support, DP Alt-Mode, enabling the DSPs, USB-C power delivery, and GPU acceleration. Neil Armstrong's slides on FOSDEM Qualcomm support The Lenovo ThinkPad X13s was also talked about for its generally great support. Plus various Linux distributions running easily on this ARM laptop. Neil Armstrong's slides on FOSDEM Qualcomm support Learn more about the Qualcomm hardware state on the mainline Linux kernel via Neil Armstrong's FOSDEM presentation. The video recording and slide deck are available on FOSDEM.org. 13 Comments Tweet Related News Linux Still Working To Disable RNDIS Drivers In 2024 Linux Developers To Meet Again To Work On HDR, Color Management & VRR Cleaning Up A Mess: Linux 6.9 Likely To Land Rework Of x86 CPU Topology Code UPower Power-Profiles-Daemon 0.20 Brings AMDGPU Display Panel Power Savings Linux 6.9 To Support Samsung Wireless Gamepad, Keyboards & Action Mouse Targeted Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler Optimization Rules Out 2k+ SPEC CPU Submissions About The Author Michael Larabel Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. 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