On Sun, Dec 07, 2025 at 11:18:28AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > 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. >
I don't know anything about this machine but yes, booting in ACPI mode first is the very first step we would need. OP, please do that and report back with a dmesg. -ml > 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
