The Google Pixel 4a smartphones launched in mid-2020 and now in mid-2025 it looks like we might finally be close to seeing mainline kernel support for the Pixel 4a devices and other hardware making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon 730/730G/732G SoCs.

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list yesterday was a patch series enabling the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730/730G/732G "SM7150" platform/SoC support and enabling Google Pixel 4a device support.

While focused initially on the Google Pixel 4a, there are a number of other Qualcomm SM7150 platforms that would benefit and be able to be upstreamed following it with numerous Xiaomi devices, the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro, and Samsung Galaxy A71.

Those interested in these patches under review for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 730/730G/732G platform support and Google Pixel 4a enablement can see [1]this LKML series .



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250422-sm7150-upstream-v1-0-bf9a9081631d@jiaxyga.com/T/#u