On Tuesday, 1 October 2024 at 12:09, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 01/10/2024 14:01, Henrik Grimler wrote: > > > Hi rbredhat, > > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 06:24:16PM +0000, rbredhat wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > As a Galaxy S9 (G960F, starlte) owner I'm glad to see the progress on adding the Exynos SoC to the mainstream. Is there any chance that the Exynos 9810 will be added as well? There are a huge number of devices based on this SoC: > > > > To my knowledge no one (individual or company) is actively working on Exynos 9810. > > > > > I am able to build a kernel from source code, but the 4.9 branch is no longer supported. My attempts to use a fresh version of the kernel failed due to my lack of programming experience. I have created a document listing the components of some of the devices, perhaps it will be useful. I can send the ods file if needed. > > > > > > https://kdrive.infomaniak.com/app/share/1019122/185f83dd-e5f7-4224-bc76-ebc3e7ccb821 > > > > > > Some device versions have Qualcomm SDM845 SoC and are already supported in mainstream. It might make it easier to add support for Exynos 9810 based devices. For example, > > > https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240926-starqltechn_integration_upstream-v5-0-d2084672ff2f@xxxxxxxxx/ > > > > Indeed, thanks to the great work by Linaro, Google and individuals > > like Dzmitry some of the core SOC support and drivers that your device > > needs are already supported. I think your best bet of getting starlte > > support in mainline linux would be to find others interested in this > > SOC and work together to add it. PostmarketOS [1] provides a great > > community for this, and its starlte wiki page [2] lists a few device > > owners, and even links to a WIP mainline tree. > > > > I have added SOC maintainers and the WIP tree author to CC, as people > > tend to not monitor the list. > > > Just FYI, the original email was sent to me already in private and I > responded. Although I am still confused what is actually the question here. > > Best regards, > Krzysztof
