Independent Developers Tackling Snapdragon 630/660 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel

[Flaburgan]

The fairphone 3 is running the 632 snapdragon. I hope it will be supported by linux, an ethical phone with a nice OS would be awesome.

[bemerk]

Nice work by all these people and companies involved.
Too bad that there is close to no work done on other SoCs than Qualcomms Snapdragon.
I guess that limits the possible mobile devices one can buy safely in the future

[skeevy420]

Sony has a device with sm6125 (SDM665) so in future it will at 99% run mainline when we get to that platform.

Nice. Thanks for the response.

[Haxk20]

I got really excited, then I realized my phone has a 665. Now I has , though optimistic about the future

Sony has a device with sm6125 (SDM665) so in future it will at 99% run mainline when we get to that platform.

[skeevy420]

I got really excited, then I realized my phone has a 665. Now I has , though optimistic about the future

[konradybcio]

Thanks for covering this

It's also worth to mention that the patch series enables support for SDM636 (a mildly cut-down 660) and possibly SDM658 (*literally* 660 with 2 cores disabled), though nobody has the hardware to test the latter one.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Independent Developers Tackling Snapdragon 630/660 SoC Support For The Upstream Linux Kernel

Qualcomm's Snapdragon 660 is approaching four years old and the Snapdragon 630 a bit younger than that, but these mobile phone SoCs may soon find renewed life on the upstream Linux kernel thanks to the work of community developers...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-SDM630-SDM660-Patches