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Sat, 22 Nov 2025 03:00:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:00:11 +0100 From: Stephan Gerhold To: Krzysztof Kozlowski Cc: Georg Gottleuber , Bjorn Andersson , Konrad Dybcio , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ettore Chimenti , Srinivas Kandagatla , stefan.schmidt@linaro.org, wse@tuxedocomputers.com, cs@tuxedo.de Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Add TUXEDO Elite 14 Gen1 (X1E78100) Message-ID: References: <20251121142623.251118-1-ggo@tuxedocomputers.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 11:16:25AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 21/11/2025 15:26, Georg Gottleuber wrote: > > [...] > > Initial support for TUXEDO Elite 14 Gen1 laptop. It is based on Qualcomm > > Snapdragon X Elite SoC (X1E78100). > > > [...] > > > Because the SoC is now outdated and some functions still do not work as > > well as customers would expect from the TUXEDO brand, TUXEDO Elite 14 Gen1 > > will not be offered for sale. We would still like to submit our device > > tree to the mainline kernel and thus contribute to Linux support for a > > compatible device sold by Medion (SPRCHRGD 14 S1 Elite). At least in > > Germany, this device was sold in many large stores. (An official press > > statement will follow on our website.) > > For me this is unmergeable, because we do not take stuff which no one > uses (no one can even use), and I am sad I put effort in reviewing AFTER > this was known to be cancelled. > I don't think we have any requirement to have a large user base in order to merge changes. There is already support for plenty of cancelled products with only a few (if any) remaining users in mainline, e.g. - Snapdragon X Elite Dev Kit (x1e001de-devkit), shipped only to a handful of users before cancelled - All ChromeOS SC7280 devices (including DTB variants for several revisions of pre-production samples), never shipped to anyone There are also plenty of internal reference devices that only a handful of people have access to (MTP, HDK, CRD etc). What makes these any different? Ettore has been actively testing and contributing to the port for the TUXEDO laptop, so if he wants to continue that, I don't think anything speaks against merging this device tree. In any case, I don't think the time reviewing these changes is wasted: As Georg wrote, there is also the Medion SPRCHRGD 14 S1 Elite laptop that uses basically the same hardware design. I'm sure there are (or eventually will be) users of that device who would appreciate having a fully-functional device tree ready to use. There is an open issue in one of the Ubuntu repositories for example [1] to add automatic DTB selection for it. In other words, even if we decide against adding support for the "x1e80100-tuxedo-elite-14-gen1", the same changes renamed to "x1e80100-medion-sprchrgd-14-s1" would still be valid and valuable. I wouldn't expect any other changes to be needed, although obviously someone with access to the device should confirm that before submitting. Thanks, Stephan [1]: https://github.com/ubuntu/stubble/issues/34