Yesterday Qualcomm posted [1]open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also [2]announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans . Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what's found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs.

Last year [3]Qualcomm upstreamed their initial GPU support for the Snapdragon X2 Elite while now it's being extended for lower-tier X2 hardware. Mahua is the SoC codename for the Snapdragon X2 at lower 10 and 12 core configurations as a step below their X2 Elite with the Glymur codename.

The patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today enable Mahua's Adreno X2-85 GPU and notes that compared to Glymur are fewer slices and smaller internal memory. Ultimately only a few dozen lines of new kernel graphics driver code are needed for enabling Mahua's GPU.

Those interested can find these Mahua GPU patches from Qualcomm on [4]the mailing list now undergoing code review.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Adreno-850-Open-Source

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Talks-Up-X2-Linux

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-X2-Elite-GPU-Linux-619

[4] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260925-mahua-gpu-v1-0-0fa0bfd8d315@oss.qualcomm.com/