Qualcomm Gets The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 Laptop Working On Linux
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Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11)
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For those interested in the prospects of running [1]Snapdragon X2 laptops on Linux rather than Windows 11 on ARM, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 has emerged as one of the initial X2 laptops with tentative Device Tree handling to allow Linux to boot on this latest-generation Qualcomm-powered laptop,
The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s with Snapdragon X1 Elite was one of the better supported first-generation Snapdragon X laptops to work with Linux from [2]good driver support to notably having the firmware upstreamed in linux-firmware.git unlike most of the other Snapdragon X1 laptops out there requiring manual firmware extraction from your local Windows partition on the device. It's looking like Lenovo will continue to be a stand-out for the Snapdragon X2 too given this early Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 activity.
Several Qualcomm engineers worked on bringing up the Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 during a recent developer sprint. With the Device Tree posted today the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 X2 laptop is booting with working audio support, GPU and display support, keyboard / touchpad / touchscreen, privacy LED, charging via USB Type-C, WiFi, and Bluetooth are confirmed working.
The support isn't entirely perfect with some quirks remaining:
"Most notably, the camera support is missing today and there is no EC driver (the one used seems to not implement the same interface as the "Qualcomm Hamoa CRD" driver services), making the OS unaware of e.g. the keyboard backlight state (although the backlight itself still
works).
These patches are a result of a collaboration between a couple of Qualcomm engineers taking part in an internal sprint and were created over 3 days.
There's a number of dependencies (audio, GPU, SoCCP series), but those all seem to be in a fairly good place, so this submission can be reviewed in parallel. As a result of that, this v1 submission is almost expected to trigger some dt-bindings warnings."
Great seeing [3]these patches as the start of Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 device support for Linux.
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 starts out at around $1049 USD for the Snapdragon X2 Plus X2P-42-100 and 16GB of soldered RAM with 1TB SSD or $1449 for the Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-80-100 model with 32GB of soldered RAM and 1TB storage.
With [4]Snapdragon X1 testing I ended up buying a laptop for being able to provide Linux support/benchmarks over time. Unfortunately, I haven't heard from any vendors with any interest in Linux testing of the new Snapdragon X2 hardware. And, unfortunately, with this year's [5]Phoronix anniversary special coming in much lower than prior years, there isn't any budget for a Snapdragon X2 laptop purchase this summer. So, sadly, for now no Snapdragon X2 Elite Linux tests are planned.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Snapdragon+X2
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ThinkPad-T14s-Gen6-EC-Linux
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20260604-topic-yoga_submission-v1-0-57c70c23d0d6@oss.qualcomm.com/T/#mf794eb9c871254d0fa7a39a7acfaf4888f940891
[4] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Snapdragon+X
[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-22-Birthday-This-Week
The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s with Snapdragon X1 Elite was one of the better supported first-generation Snapdragon X laptops to work with Linux from [2]good driver support to notably having the firmware upstreamed in linux-firmware.git unlike most of the other Snapdragon X1 laptops out there requiring manual firmware extraction from your local Windows partition on the device. It's looking like Lenovo will continue to be a stand-out for the Snapdragon X2 too given this early Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 activity.
Several Qualcomm engineers worked on bringing up the Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 during a recent developer sprint. With the Device Tree posted today the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 X2 laptop is booting with working audio support, GPU and display support, keyboard / touchpad / touchscreen, privacy LED, charging via USB Type-C, WiFi, and Bluetooth are confirmed working.
The support isn't entirely perfect with some quirks remaining:
"Most notably, the camera support is missing today and there is no EC driver (the one used seems to not implement the same interface as the "Qualcomm Hamoa CRD" driver services), making the OS unaware of e.g. the keyboard backlight state (although the backlight itself still
works).
These patches are a result of a collaboration between a couple of Qualcomm engineers taking part in an internal sprint and were created over 3 days.
There's a number of dependencies (audio, GPU, SoCCP series), but those all seem to be in a fairly good place, so this submission can be reviewed in parallel. As a result of that, this v1 submission is almost expected to trigger some dt-bindings warnings."
Great seeing [3]these patches as the start of Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 device support for Linux.
The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 starts out at around $1049 USD for the Snapdragon X2 Plus X2P-42-100 and 16GB of soldered RAM with 1TB SSD or $1449 for the Snapdragon X2 Elite X2E-80-100 model with 32GB of soldered RAM and 1TB storage.
With [4]Snapdragon X1 testing I ended up buying a laptop for being able to provide Linux support/benchmarks over time. Unfortunately, I haven't heard from any vendors with any interest in Linux testing of the new Snapdragon X2 hardware. And, unfortunately, with this year's [5]Phoronix anniversary special coming in much lower than prior years, there isn't any budget for a Snapdragon X2 laptop purchase this summer. So, sadly, for now no Snapdragon X2 Elite Linux tests are planned.
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Snapdragon+X2
[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/ThinkPad-T14s-Gen6-EC-Linux
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20260604-topic-yoga_submission-v1-0-57c70c23d0d6@oss.qualcomm.com/T/#mf794eb9c871254d0fa7a39a7acfaf4888f940891
[4] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Snapdragon+X
[5] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-22-Birthday-This-Week