{"id":6863,"date":"2025-07-13T14:31:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6863\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T14:31:04","slug":"linux-patches-updated-for-the-new-fairphone-6-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/6863\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Patches Updated For The New Fairphone 6 Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HARDWARE\"
\nLast month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches<\/a> were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphone. That Linux support code with the Device Tree (DT) files have been under review and out today is the second iteration of those enablement patches.<\/p>\n

The Fairphone 6 was announced as starting at \u20ac599 (~$695 USD) and powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 processor, 8GB of RAM, 512GB of internal storage (expandable to 2TB via microSD), 6.3-inch OLED 120Hz display, 4415 mAh battery, 50MP main camera, and compatible with the Fairphone ethos built over the years by the Dutch company for its modular and repair-friendly hardware approach. <\/p>\n

\"Fairphone<\/p>\n

Following a request from Qualcomm, the SM7635 SoC name referenced by the Fairphone 6 Device Tree is renamed to just “Milos” and various other changes made for this second version of the Fairphone Gen 6 enablement patches:
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“Changes in v2:
– Rebrand SM7635 to Milos as requested
– Disable pm8550vs instances by default
– Enable gpi_dma by default, sort pinctrl, update gpio-reserved-ranges style, update USB2.0 comment, newlines before status, remove dummy panel for simpledrm”
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Those interested can find the v2 patches for the Fairphone 6 smartphone enablement for Linux via the LKML<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[7278,7277,7275,7274,7281,7279,7276,165,7280,7273,7284,74,7282,7283],"class_list":{"0":"post-6863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-desktop-linux","9":"tag-linux-benchmarking","10":"tag-linux-hardware-benchmarks","11":"tag-linux-hardware-reviews","12":"tag-linux-how-to","13":"tag-linux-performance","14":"tag-linux-server-benchmarks","15":"tag-mobile","16":"tag-open-source-graphics","17":"tag-phoronix","18":"tag-phoronix-test-suite","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-ubuntu-benchmarks","21":"tag-ubuntu-hardware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}