Last month Qualcomm engineers posted patches bringing up the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 laptop on Linux. Sent out this weekend were a new set of patches from Qualcomm for bringing up the HP EliteBook X G2q laptop model powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC.

The HP EliteBook X G2q is available in Snapdragon X2 Plus and X2 Elite models with the latter now seeing Linux support via pending patchhes from Qualcomm engineer Jason Pettit.

They brought up this Linux support on the actual hardware and got most functionality working, including the Adreno graphics, HDMI output, USB Type-C, the internal eDP, NVMe SD, WiFi, keyboard and touchpad and other functionality. The integrated web camera is one of the few features not yet supported, similar to the other recent Snapdragon X2 Linux laptop enablement.

The HP EliteBook X G2q features a 14-inch WUXGA display, 512GB stock, 24GB of RAM for the base model but up to 64GB of RAM available, and ships with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro. In today's environment, the base model of the HP EliteBook X G2q is $3,885 USD and that is for the X2 Plus model not covered by these patches. The X2 Elite version with the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2E-84-100 with 32GB of RAM is $4586 USD or the flagship model of this laptop with the X2E-90-100 and 64GB of RAM goes for $6337+.

The patch series for this HP EliteBook X G2q support deneds upon other yet-to-be-merged Linux kernel patches. We'll see if all this can get wrapped up by the Linux v7.3 kernel later in the year. In any event, the Snapdragon X2 Linux laptop efforts are moving along faster than on the Apple Silicon side where Linux is finally booting the Apple M3 but not yet ready for any actual end-user use due to the lack of GPU support and other functionality at this time.