MediaTek MT6589
Appearance
	
	
|  MT6589 SoC in ceramic BGA capsule | |
| Manufacturer | MediaTek | 
|---|---|
| Name | MT6589 | 
| Architecture | armv7 | 
| CPU | 4x 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7 | 
| GPU | PowerVR SGX544MP @ 286 MHz | 
| Year | 2013 | 
| Process | 28nm | 
| Mainline | yes | 
| CPU SMP (bring up secondary CPU cores), CPU frequency scaling, CPUidle | Partial | 
|---|---|
| UART | Works | 
| Storage eMMC, SD cards, UFS, ... | Broken | 
| USB | Broken | 
| Display | Partial | 
| GPU | Broken | 
| Pinctrl | Broken | 
| I²C | Broken | 
| Audio | Broken | 
| Video Hardware-accelerated video de/encoding | Broken | 
| Thermal | Broken | 
| Modem Calls, SMS, Internet | Broken | 
| Camera | Broken | 
| Suspend | Broken | 
Variants
There are two known variants for this SoC: MT8125 and MT8389, focused on tablets market. However, both the two variants appear to be pretty the same as MT6589.
Devices
| Device | Codename | Chipset | Category | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairphone 1 | fairphone-fp1 | MediaTek MT6589 | downstream | 
| Lenovo IdeaTab A3000 | lenovo-a3000 | MediaTek MT6589 | |
| Lenovo YOGA Tablet 10 | lenovo-b8000 | MediaTek MT8125 | testing | 
| Lenovo YOGA Tablet 8 | lenovo-b6000 | MediaTek MT8125 | |
| Verizon (Quanta) Verizon Ellipsis 7 QMV7B | verizon-qmv7b | MediaTek MT8125 | 
Details on status
Everything marked as Y should be fully functional, hence this section describes items marked as P.
CPU
SMP works (is able to power on the 2nd core), but no cpufreq.
Display
Only simple-framebuffer (using already initialized display hardware by the LK bootloader) works for now.
See Also
mt6589-mainline Near-mainline kernel tree for MT6589 devices.
TeamYogaBlade2/linux Yet another near-mainline kernel tree for MT6589.
mt6589.dtsi MT6589 device tree in mainline kernel tree.