Snapdragon 845¶

About this¶

This document describes the information about Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 supported boards and it’s usage steps.

SDM845 - hi-end qualcomm chip, introduced in late 2017. Mostly used in flagship phones and tablets of 2018.

U-Boot can be used as a replacement for Qualcomm’s original ABL (UEFI) bootloader. It is loaded as an Android boot image through ABL

First, setup CROSS_COMPILE for aarch64. Then, build U-Boot for your board:

$ export CROSS_COMPILE=<aarch64 toolchain prefix>
$ make <your board name here, see Boards section>_defconfig
$ make

This will build u-boot.bin in the configured output directory.

The starqltechn is a production board for Samsung S9 (SM-G9600) phone, based on the Qualcomm SDM845 SoC.

More information can be found on the Samsung S9 page.