An initial set of mainline Linux patches for Samsung’s Galaxy XR headset and its Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 “Halliday” SoC landed on the LKML, Phoronix reports. Developer Stanislav Aleksandrov wrote them with help from Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini.
- Seventeen patches add Device Tree support so the headset boots to an initramfs with a shell over USB NCM.
- PCIe and WiFi still need work.
- Aleksandrov says he reviewed and tested them on real Galaxy XR hardware.
My take
Early bring-up, not a daily driver. Cool to see XR hardware getting mainline attention.
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