Qualcomm Platform Services
Linaro is a leader in providing Linux BSP development, maintenance and optimization for Qualcomm platforms such as Qualcomm Snapdragon.
Linaro software engineers are recognized worldwide as experts in the Linux kernel community, and the maintainers in the official Linux kernel for main key Qualcomm subsystems and drivers.
Qualcomm and Linaro
Ten years of open-source innovation
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Land
Introduce support for Qualcomm SoCs and technologies in open source (kernel, toolchain, bootloader, QEMU, etc). Track open source projects, adapt and maintain
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Package
Integrate, test and package publicly available fully upstream Qualcomm Linux OS images (Yocto Project, Debian, etc)
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Certify
Achieve and maintain compliance with industry standards (YP Compatibility, Arm System Ready, etc)
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Deploy
Support Qualcomm’s customers and device makers with customizations, compliance artifacts, OS production-grade releases, support and maintenance
Qualcomm’s Robotic Platforms Upstream Support Status
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Started with DragonBoards (db410c, db820c), linux kernel 4.4
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Moved on to Robotics Boards (RB3, rb5, RB2, RB1) and latest kernel 6.4
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Supported board peripherals
Display, GPU (freedreno), DSPs, WLAN, audio, BT, CPU freq scaling, Hot Plug, Storage, PCIe, FastRPC, USB, Security Crypto, Thermal, Bus scaling, I2C/SPI/UART, Watchdog
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Upstream reference builds
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Upstream Releases
- Yocto Project Compatible meta-qcomBSPs layer https://git.yoctoproject.org/meta-qcom/
- Linaro Images based on latest stable kernel
- Mainline Snapshot Images
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Unified Boot for RBx platforms
- U-Boot powered
- Single Kernel image for all platforms
- Single disk image for all platforms
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Arm SystemReady-IR Compliance
- Work via Linaro Edge Group (PR coming!)
- RB3, rb5, RB2, RB1