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Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 (MSM8909)

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Qualcomm MSM8909
MSM8909 in ceramic BGA package
MSM8909 in ceramic BGA package
Manufacturer Qualcomm
Name MSM8909
Architecture armv7
CPU 4x Cortex-A7
GPU Adreno 304
Year 2015
Process 28nm
Mainline experimental
Community Page
A link to a git{hub,lab} organisation/repo where development happens.
https://github.com/msm8916-mainline
Components
CPU
SMP (bring up secondary CPU cores), CPU frequency scaling, CPUidle
Works
UART
Works
Storage
eMMC, SD cards, UFS, ...
Works
USB
Works
Display
Partial
GPU
Untested
Pinctrl
Works
I²C
Works
SPI
Serial Peripheral Interface
Works
Audio
Broken
Video
Hardware-accelerated video de/encoding
Untested
Thermal
Untested
WiFi
Partial
Bluetooth
Broken
Modem
Calls, SMS, Internet
Broken
Camera
Broken

MSM8909/APQ8009 (or Snapdragon 210) is a low-end Qualcomm SoC released in 2015. There is a slightly higher clocked variant (CPU cores up to 1.3 GHz) available as Snapdragon 212 and a variant with only two CPUs available as MSM8905 or Qualcomm 205.

Devices

Snapdragon 210 (MSM8909)

Device Codename Category
Acer Liquid Z330 acer-t01 testing
Alcatel MyFlip alcatel-gflip2
FarEasTone Smart 506 fareastone-smart506 testing
Huawei Y560-L01 huawei-y560 downstream
ICareDx PSS‐1 RT‐PCR Testing System icaredx-pss-1
Lenovo Tab2 A10-30L (TB2-X30L) lenovo-achilles downstream
Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 10 LTE lenovo-lxf-p5100 testing
Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 8 LTE lenovo-lxf-p5000
LG K4 lg-m160e
LG K7 lg-m1
LG Wine Smart 2015 lg-cf_global_com testing
Microsoft Lumia 550 microsoft-saimaa
Mobvoi Ticwatch C2+ mobvoi-skipjack downstream
MTO M9 mto-m9
Nokia 6300 4G nokia-leo testing
Nokia 8000 4G nokia-sparkler testing
Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 qcom-msm8909 testing
Timex FamilyConnect Senior timex-senior
Vestel Venus 5530 vestel-pars

Snapdragon Wear 2100 (MSM8909W)

Device Codename Category
Light Phone 2 light-phone-2

Snapdragon Wear 2100 WiFi-only (APQ8009W)

Device Codename Category
Mobvoi Ticwatch Pro mobvoi-catfish

Snapdragon 212 (MSM8909v2)

Device Codename Category
Jolla Jolla C/Intex Aqua Fish l500d
Microsoft Lumia 650 LTE microsoft-saana

Snapdragon 212 WiFi-only (APQ8009)

Device Codename Category
Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 10 WiFi lenovo-lxf-p5100 testing
Lenovo Yoga Tab 3 8 WiFi lenovo-lxf-p5000

Qualcomm 205 Mobile Platform (MSM8905)

Device Codename Category
Nokia 2720 Flip nokia-beatles downstream
Nokia 8110 4G nokia-argon testing

USB

Works. You can use USB Networking.

Display

Display seems to work fine on all Snapdragon 210 devices using the downstream kernel.

Mainline

There is an experimental mainline Linux port available at https://github.com/msm8916-mainline/linux . WiFi, Bluetooth, Modem work. The main open problem is the display, which is quite different from other Qualcomm SoCs (MDP3 instead of MDP4/MDP5) and needs a new driver in Linux. However, this only applies to devices where the display is connected via DSI, as SPI displays on devices like the Nokia 8110 4G (nokia-argon) are already supported in the mainline kernel and work without MDP3.

See also

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