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Snapdragon X2’s Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1

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Last updated: 2026/04/03 at 8:24 AM
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Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. This new work for DRM-Next includes enhancements to the Adreno X2-85 GPU support as found within the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs plus various enhancements to existing Qualcomm graphics/display hardware.

The MSM driver with Linux 7.1 is enabling preemption support for the X2-85 GPU. Also new is SKU detection for the X2-85 GPU. The SKU detection includes the Speedbin table for the different X2-85 SKUs. There is also a fix for dealing with bogus protect errors on the X2-85.

Snapdragon X Elite laptop

The Adreno 840 GPU with Linux 7.1 MSM is also seeing preemption support. SKU detection, and additionally Inter Frame Power Collapse “IFPC” is being enabled as a power-savings feature.

Also exciting with the MSM driver updates is dealing with Application Qrisc Engine “AQE” support as needed for being able to support Vulkan ray pipeline support.

The MSM driver updates also include DPU support for the Eliza SoC, reworked alpha handling, RGB101010 support in the DSI code, and various fixes. The full list of Qualcomm MSM driver improvements for Linux 7.1 can be found via this pull request.

Not part of this pull request but in other MSM driver news for the week, patches were also sent out for enabling the Adreno 810 GPU as found in the Milos SoC.

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