Qualcomm engineers posted a set of 15 patches today for the Linux kernel to enable the Qualcomm Kuno SoC support and their reference development platform.

I haven't been able to find much official information on Qualcomm Kuno with searches for Kuno leading back to these Qualcomm Linux patches themselves. But before getting too excited, Qualcomm Kuno is a 32-bit Cortex-A7 platform that is hardly exciting in performance terms for 2026 or even over the past decade.

The patch series is summed up as:

"This series adds initial support for the Qualcomm Kuno SoC and the Kuno IDP reference board.

Kuno is a 32-bit ARM (Cortex-A7) Qualcomm platform. This series brings up the essential SoC infrastructure required to boot to a serial console:

- Global Clock Controller (GCC) and RPMh clock controller

- RPMh power domains

- Interconnect (NoC) provider

- TLMM pin controller

- PDC interrupt controller and SCM firmware interface

- Devicetree for the SoC and the Kuno IDP board"

The patches get the basic Kuno SoC enablement in order, which isn't too much considering the maturity of the Cortex-A7 at this stage. Plus the Device Tree for the Qualcomm Integrated Development Platform (IDP) reference board for Kuno.

Those interested can find the enablement work via [1]this LKML patch series .



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20260809-kuno-soc-support-v1-0-5e0ede4a0c72@oss.qualcomm.com/