Re: Questions About SM8550 Support

[Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@oss.qualcomm.com>]

On 1/27/26 11:48 PM, Aaron Kling wrote:
> I am working on the AYN Odin 2 qcs8550 series of devices, specifically
> for Android, using mainline kernel drivers. I have come across some
> missing functionality and failures that I would like to inquire about.
> 
> * ABL fails to load a dtbo using a baseline dtb unmodified from
> mainline. Using changes described in the gunyah watchdog thread [0], a
> dtbo loads and the devices boot as expected. If any of the changes in
> that post don't exist in the base dtb, abl will fail to load the dtbo
> and go to the bootloader menu. This appears to be an issue in the
> baseline abl code, affecting all devices of that generation. Would it
> be allowable to merge a change adding those changes to the sm8550
> dtsi, allowing an unmodified mainline dtb to work with overlays?

ABL is.. picky.. to say the least

Could you please try to check if what once worked for me on a
8550-based Sony phone would happen to work for you too?

39c596304e44 ("arm64: dts: qcom: Add SM8550 Xperia 1 V")

Konrad