> Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:04:55 -0600 > From: nosuchthingascloud <[email protected]> > > I read that patrick@ got initial support for Snapdragon Elite X into the > openbsd kernel > (https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240620105457), so I was > super excited to try OpenBSD on my EliteBook Ultra G1q 14 inch Notebook AI > PC. Unfortunately the LiveUSB bootloops immediately and does not throw any > error messages beyond a black screen. I have managed to get it booting > Ubuntu and dumped all the firmware from Windows. It works minus an issue > with the sound driver, the hardware probe from that run can be found here: > https://linux-hardware.org/?probe=57080c998f > > I am really eager to get OpenBSD working on this, so if I can be of any > assistance or troubleshooting let me know. I also have copies of the > firmware I obtained from qualcom-firmware-extract.
Keep those files somewhere safe. It seems the EliteBook is almost identical to the OmniBook, which works with OpenBSD. However, the (UEFI) firmware is a pile of crap and I do believe it needs some sort of workaround to get it to boot the OpenBSD installer. I've CC'ed landry@ and mlarkin@ here who would know more about this machine. It should boot in ACPI mode with some minimal hardware support. To get the machine working properly, we need to add the device tree for this machine to the arm64-qcom-dtb package and add a line to the OpenBSD bootloader to load it. But for that we need to see a dmesg from the machine first. Cheers, Mark
