What have we here? First boot attempt with FreeBSD 14.1 aarch64 on a Thinkpad T14s gen6, running a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite processor.
A few next steps, update the BIOS and other firmware blobs, mess around with some dtb files, poke and prod, iterate as usual.
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@[email protected] that’s exciting! How difficult was it? I’ve been eyeing these snapdragon PCs but not about to use windows as my daily driver so I’ve held off
@billy yep, anything involving windows is a detriment. I did have some amount of foresight to swap the stock nvme (ships with win11) for a clean one, which turned out to be important as there are some Qualcomm firmware upgrades which (presently, hopefully not for forever) require exe … so the stock drive will be reinstalled temporarily.
@[email protected] ah good thinking! I’ll keep an eye on your progress! I thought I read somewhere that Qualcomm was working to mainline drivers in Linux, or at the very least @[email protected] are working on a Linux laptop using Qualcomm’s chips1. Maybe there will be some work there you can reference for BSD as well!