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Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Plus (MSM8960)

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Qualcomm MSM8960
Manufacturer Qualcomm
Name MSM8960
Architecture armv7
CPU 2x Krait (ARMv7) CPU cores at 1.5 - 1.7 GHz
GPU Adreno 225
Year 2013
Process 28nm
Mainline yes
Components
CPU
Works
UART
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Storage
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USB
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Display
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GPU
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Pinctrl
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I²C
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SPI
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Audio
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Video
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Thermal
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WiFi
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Bluetooth
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Modem
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GPS
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Camera
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NPU
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Suspend
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Ethernet
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SATA
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The Qualcomm MSM8960 (Snapdragon S4 series) is a high-end smartphone SoC in 2012. It contains two Krait (ARMv7) CPU cores at 1.5 - 1.7 GHz, a Adreno 225 GPU (400 MHz), a LPDDR2 memory controller (up to 500 MHz) and radio elements including LTE. The chip is produced in 28nm LP (low power process) at TSMC.

Devices

Snapdragon S4 Plus (MSM8960)

Device Codename Mainline
Acer CloudMobile S500 acer-swing N
BlackBerry Limited Classic blackberry-q20
Casio G'zOne casio-ca201l Y
HTC One S htc-ville N
HTC One SV htc-k2ul
HTC One XL htc-evita
Motorola Moto X motorola-ghost
Motorola Photon Q motorola-asanti
NEC Terrain nec-terrain
Nokia Lumia 820 nokia-arrow
Nokia Lumia 920 nokia-phi
Nokia Lumia 925 nokia-catwalk
Pantech SKY VEGA S5 pantech-ef44 P
Samsung Ativ S samsung-i8750
Samsung Galaxy Express SGH-I437 samsung-expressatt Y
Samsung Galaxy S III (Verizon) samsung-d2vzw
Samsung Galaxy S Relay 4G samsung-apexq
Samsung Galaxy SIII (US version, i747m) samsung-i747m
Sony Xperia SP sony-huashan N
Sony Xperia T sony-mint

Mainline

This chipset should be supported inside mainline kernel, yet first devices trees (DT) based on arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-msm8960-cdp.dts file are expected.

Another starting point for MSM8960 devices: https://github.com/andersson/kernel/blob/41e99cea7c35e82d74862b0293a24a1930c322c4/arch/arm/boot/dts/sony-blue-mint.dts (beware, very old, 2015).

At this moment, work is mostly done in https://github.com/apq8064-mainline/linux git tree

See also

Very similar to the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 (APQ8064)