Qualcomm Snapdragon X7 LTE-A

[Sebastian Sjoholm]

> On Jan 6, 2017, at 22:08 , Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 16:45 +0100, Benoît wrote:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> I am interested to buy a new laptop which includes Qualcomm
>> Snapdragon X7 LTE-A
>> Any idea if libqmi supports it ?
> 
> "Snapdragon X7 LTE-A" is a marketing name for one of the chips soldered
> onto the minicard in the laptop.  But this name doesn't tell us
> anything about that minicard or how the minicard presents itself to the
> OS.
> 
> Ideally you could figure out what the OEM (eg, Sierra, Huawei, ZTE,
> etc) is and what the model # of the actual minicard is.  Like Sierra
> EM7455 or Huawei EM820W etc.
> 

The Snapdragon X7 LTE belongs to the 9x35/9x30 chipset family, so in this case the Sierra MC/EM7455 (MDM9230) should fit in.

-Sebastian