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Linux Patches Being Worked On For The HP EliteBook Ultra G1q

([Hardware] 6 Hours Ago HP EliteBook Ultra G1q)


Yet another Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptop seeing new DeviceTree patches for enabling Linux support is the HP EliteBook Ultra G1q.

The HP EliteBook Ultra G1q is a 14-inch 2.2K notebook shipping with Windows 11 Pro and using a Snapdragon X1 Elite SoC. In large part, like the many other Snapdragon X1 series laptops out there. This $1.3k USD ARM laptop is similar to the HP OmniBook X 14 laptop.

With [1]this patch series from Canonical engineer Juerg Haefliger, there is the initial DeviceTree files needed for booting the HP EliteBook Ultra G1q 14" AI laptop with Linux.

Though there may be some errors and given the timing anyhow these DT patches won't be merged until the Linux v6.16 cycle at the earliest.

"This is the first time I'm fiddling with device trees so this is likely not correct :-|"

In any event for those interested in running Linux on the HP EliteBook Ultra G1q using a mainline kernel, it looks like it will be a possibility in the months ahead.

The patches don't note any feature limitations for this laptop when running Linux, which is unfortunately all too common for the Snapdragon X1 laptops with various features from audio to other hardware features tending to not work initially outside of Microsoft Windows.



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250404090108.3333211-1-juerg.haefliger@canonical.com/



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