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All of the ARM SoC and platform driver changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.8 kernel that include bringing up the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon SoCs, enabling various low-cost gaming handheld console devices, finally upstreaming Google Tensor G1 support, and other hardware additions.

There are six new AArch64 SoCs added for Linux 6.8 including the Samsung Exynos Auto v920, Google GS101 (Tensor G1), MediaTek MT8188, Qualcomm SM8650 (Snapdragon 8 Gen 3), Qualcomm X1E80100 (Snapdragon X Elite), and Unisoc UMS9620 (Tanggula 7).

It’s about time the Google Tensor G1 SoC was upstreamed that has been used by various Pixel smartphones.

Also notable with the ARM changes for Linux 6.8 is supporting several cheap ARM-powered handheld game consoles.

Linux 6.8 aldo adds support for new Lenovo, ASUS, and Acer Chromebooks that employ the Mediatek MT8183 SoC.

There is some code removed this cycle, in particular dropping the old ARM11 MPCore CPU support.

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