2026-09-26 –, 5053.1 (Großer B-IT Raum)
This Qualcomm SoC - code-named Kodiak - is used for many use cases. With its SC7280 variant it's used in laptops and was planned to be used in Chromebooks, the SM7325 variant is used in smartphones, QCM6490 is the IoT variant used in plenty of SBCs and some smartphones, and perhaps we'll see yet another new variant of this chip?
Let's talk about the history of this chip, with a strong eye on Linux kernel development and device bringup.
Luca Weiss works as Android & Linux Kernel Engineer at Fairphone working on extending the software lifespan of phones, enabling them to last longer. He is also maintaining and contributing to many open source projects such as postmarketOS, a Linux distribution for phones, and contributes various patches to the Linux kernel. Website: https://lucaweiss.eu – Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@z3ntu