Initial Raspberry Pi 5 Support & More Snapdragon X1 Laptops Submitted For Linux 6.12

All of the ARM SoC and platform updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Exciting this cycle is finally having initial support for the Raspberry Pi 5 plus supporting several more Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops.

Linux 6.12 brings initial support for the Broadcom BCM2712 SoC that's powering the Raspberry Pi 5. It's taken some time for this very preliminary BCM2712 / Raspberry Pi 5 support to be worked into shape for upstreaming. More code is still needed though before the Raspberry Pi 5 upstream support will all be ironed out for supporting all features and functionality.

The ARM SoC additions for Linux 6.12 also include Qualcomm Snapdragon 414 (MSM8929) support. Seven more phones are supported by the Linux 6.12 kernel along with three more Snapdragon laptops. Among the new hardware support is for the Cool Pi CM5 GenBook, the GameForce Ace handheld gaming device, IBM POWER11 servers with ASpeed BMC, Hardkernel ODROID-M15 and ODROID-M2, and more. The new Snapdragon X1 laptops are the ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 and X1-based Microsoft Surface Laptop 7 devices.

More details on all of these chnges via these pull requests.