On Sun 28 Jul 06:26 PDT 2019, Joshua Lee wrote:
Hello, this appears to be a development-only mailing list, so pardon me if I’m disturbing anyone.
Hi Joshua,
Don't worry about it.
I’m running a Samsung Galaxy Book 2 (using SD850 + QUALCOMM x20 modem + AMOLED touch screen, detachable KB, and stylus) and am wondering if the work being done mostly on Lenovo SD850 laptops apparently and older devices will apply to this hardware, or should I not hold my breath? Don’t worry, this isn’t an ETA or a complaint, I appreciate everything you’re doing and wish I knew more about programming so I could help out.
There's a lot of leverage from the Lenovo when it comes to supporting the Galaxy Book 2, but there are two mechanism used to describe the hardware to the OS; ACPI and DeviceTree.
As the far majority of all Qualcomm devices that is being work on (laptops and others) uses DeviceTree the Linux support for this is much more mature than ACPI - and the laptops comes with ACPI.
So the path to support one of these devices (short term) is to write a DeviceTree description for it, based on the Lenovo and based on the ACPI tables of the device.
Regards, Bjorn