New Linux Patches Bring-Up The Samsung Galaxy XR Headset, Qualcomm Halliday SoC

Samsung's Galaxy XR headset runs on Android XR by default with its own downstream kernel patches. A user leveraging AI with multiple LLMs has now drafted an initial set of patches getting the Galaxy XR headset working on the mainline kernel along with bringing up the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 "Halliday" SoC that powers this VR/XR headset. Open-source developer Stanislav Aleksandrov, who has also worked on the KDE Plasma XR/VR support and more, is the one who worked out the Linux kernel patches for the Galaxy XR headset and Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 SoC enabling. This was done with the help of the Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini LLMs. The patches posted to the mailing list today bring up the initial Device Tree support for both the Qualcomm Halliday and Samsung Galaxy XR. This gets the headset booting to an initramfs with a shell over USB NCM. PCIe and WiFi enabling patches still need to happen. This set of 17 patches were said to be reviewed and tested by Stanislav on the Samsung Galaxy XR headset. Those interested in this initial enabling work can find the patches on the LKML.