Firmware Upstreamed For Supporting The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2's Adreno GPU
Upstreamed last week to the linux-firmware.git repository by Qualcomm was the GPU firmware files needed for enabling the Adreno GPU on the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC.
Linux 6.19 added the X2-85 GPU support to the Qualcomm MSM DRM driver. Mesa 26.0 also has initial support for these Gen8 Adreno graphics. Now the necessary firmware files for driver support are in place via the de facto Linux Firmware Git repository so that these open-source drivers can actually function.
With this Adreno X2-85 GPU found on the Snapdragon X2 SoCs, there thankfully isn't any dependence on OEM firmware to avoid that mess that for the X1 did require extracting firmware from Windows on ARM installations from most of the laptop models out there. With the Snapdragon X2 graphics the firmware support is upstream but other component firmware will still depend upon the respective OEM firmware binaries from Windows or those OEMs opting to do the right thing of upstreaming their binaries to linux-firmware.git.
This commit is what added the GPU firmware binaries for the Snadragon X2 "Glymur" hardware.
Linux 6.19 added the X2-85 GPU support to the Qualcomm MSM DRM driver. Mesa 26.0 also has initial support for these Gen8 Adreno graphics. Now the necessary firmware files for driver support are in place via the de facto Linux Firmware Git repository so that these open-source drivers can actually function.
With this Adreno X2-85 GPU found on the Snapdragon X2 SoCs, there thankfully isn't any dependence on OEM firmware to avoid that mess that for the X1 did require extracting firmware from Windows on ARM installations from most of the laptop models out there. With the Snapdragon X2 graphics the firmware support is upstream but other component firmware will still depend upon the respective OEM firmware binaries from Windows or those OEMs opting to do the right thing of upstreaming their binaries to linux-firmware.git.
This commit is what added the GPU firmware binaries for the Snadragon X2 "Glymur" hardware.