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<h1 id="the-arm-saga-part-1">The ARM saga: part 1</h1>
<p>Progress update and guide</p>
<hr />
<p>Turns out in the time I was looking away, 1) the Elitebook
got added to the mainline kernel (somewhere in the 6.16 release
candidates), and 2) Ubuntu released an updated Snapdragon
Concept image - and not just that, I managed to find <a
href="https://people.canonical.com/~platform/images/ubuntu-concept/">new
builds</a>. Unfortunately, the version of Ubuntu I tested
doesn't support it yet, but it's a good start.</p>
<p>To work around this though, you can just add in the Elitebook
device tree manually (I <del>stole</del> borrowed it from the
postmarketOS package <code>linux-postmarketos-qcom-sm7635</code>
and copied it to the drive), then updated the grub config
file:</p>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre
class="language-txt"><code class="language-default"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> regexp &quot;HP EliteBook Ultra G1q 14.*&quot; &quot;$system_product_name&quot;</span>
<span id="cb1-2"><a href="#cb1-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> if [ $? == 0 ]; then</span>
<span id="cb1-3"><a href="#cb1-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> cmdline=&quot;clk_ignore_unused pd_ignore_unused cma=128M&quot;</span>
<span id="cb1-4"><a href="#cb1-4" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> dtb=&quot;devicetree /casper/dtbs/x1e80100-hp-elitebook-ultra-g1q.dtb&quot;</span>
<span id="cb1-5"><a href="#cb1-5" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a> fi</span></code></pre></div>
<p>I'm still gonna give Ubuntu flak for making new builds
without actually changing anything meaningful, though. At this
point, the mainline kernel has had better compatibility for over
a month.</p>
<h2 id="whats-broken">What's broken</h2>
<p>Out of some quick testing, these things were still
broken:</p>
<ul>
<li>Wifi</li>
<li>Battery level</li>
<li>Audio</li>
<li>Processor isn't listed in GNOME settings for whatever
reason</li>
</ul>
<p>Based off the Postmarket OS page for the <a
href="https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/ASUS_Vivobook_S_15_(asus-s5507q)">ASUS
Vivobook S 15</a>, I wouldn't be surprised if video hardware
encoding/decoding was broken too.</p>
<p>But for the most part, it's working as far as I've seen - at
least, not crashing. There's certainly some errors in
<code>journalctl</code>, ones that I might not report because
Ubuntu's bug reporting is horrible, but it works.</p>
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# The ARM saga: part 1
Progress update and guide
---
Turns out in the time I was looking away, 1) the Elitebook got added to the mainline kernel (somewhere in the 6.16 release candidates), and 2) Ubuntu released an updated Snapdragon Concept image - and not just that, I managed to find [new builds](https://people.canonical.com/~platform/images/ubuntu-concept/). Unfortunately, the version of Ubuntu I tested doesn't support it yet, but it's a good start.
To work around this though, you can just add in the Elitebook device tree manually (I ~~stole~~ borrowed it from the postmarketOS package `linux-postmarketos-qcom-sm7635` and copied it to the drive), then updated the grub config file:
```txt
regexp "HP EliteBook Ultra G1q 14.*" "$system_product_name"
if [ $? == 0 ]; then
cmdline="clk_ignore_unused pd_ignore_unused cma=128M"
dtb="devicetree /casper/dtbs/x1e80100-hp-elitebook-ultra-g1q.dtb"
fi
```
I'm still gonna give Ubuntu flak for making new builds without actually changing anything meaningful, though. At this point, the mainline kernel has had better compatibility for over a month.
## What's broken
Out of some quick testing, these things were still broken:
- Wifi
- Battery level
- Audio
- Processor isn't listed in GNOME settings for whatever reason
Based off the Postmarket OS page for the [ASUS Vivobook S 15](https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/ASUS_Vivobook_S_15_(asus-s5507q)), I wouldn't be surprised if video hardware encoding/decoding was broken too.
But for the most part, it's working as far as I've seen - at least, not crashing. There's certainly some errors in `journalctl`, ones that I might not report because Ubuntu's bug reporting is horrible, but it works.

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