The MSM8953 (Qualcomm Snapdragon 625) is a 64-bit ARM processor widely used in automotive Android head units, mobile phones, and tablets . Finding "drivers" for this chip depends on whether you are trying to interface the device with a PC or looking for the kernel-level drivers to run the hardware itself. 1. PC-to-Device Drivers (Connectivity)
If you are a developer or advanced user aiming to run a modern ARM64 OS (e.g., Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, or Android 14 GSI) on an MSM8953 device, follow this roadmap. msm8953 for arm64 driver
Development for MSM8953 drivers typically falls into three main buckets: Mainline Kernel Support : Community efforts like the msm8953-mainline GitHub The MSM8953 (Qualcomm Snapdragon 625) is a 64-bit
Look for defconfig: msm8953_defconfig or msm8953_64_defconfig. UART, I2C, SPI, SDHCI (storage) Simple framebuffer (display)
: Most MSM8953 devices originally shipped with older Android kernels (e.g., 3.18 or 4.9), but there is a robust mainline Linux effort that allows you to run close-to-upstream kernels. Subsystem Drivers Camera (KMD/UMD)