EOL since Apr, 2025. I don't own the device anymore.
This repository contains workarounds for the Huawei Matebook E Go (8cx Gen 3) to support Linux.
This project mainly refers to the following projects:
- jhovold: x13s downstream linux maintainer, upstream support for sc8280xp platform and x13s device.
- steev: x13s downstream linux maintainer.
- linaro team: initial arm64 EC support(C630), and UCSI driver based on arm64 EC.
- Nikita Travkin: anoter arm64 EC driver.
- aymanbagabas: Huawei laptop wmi driver.
- NewWheat: yet anoter arm64 EC driver, and help from him.
- chenxuecong2 & matalama80td3l: initial device tree for the Huawei Matebook E Go.
Initial dt support will land on 6.14.(landed)
Initial EC support will land on 6.15.
Initial UCSI support will land on 6.16.
I am just an amateur, a Linux noob, not educated with formal CS courses. You should never believe what I say below, except this sentence. I am not responsible for your actions; you do this all at your own risk!
Use steev or jhovold one with default config and simplefb enabled. (My AUR here)
Kernel parameter: clk_ignore_unused pd_ignore_unused arm64.nopauth efi=noruntime
See release.
User and password are both alarm and both root.
Refer to this as well. If you want to see some spoilers, check this.
| Feature | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Audio | works | see below |
| Backlight | x | unknow I2C baclkight IC |
| Battery | works | For more attributes, check /sys/class/power_supply/gaokun-ec-battery/* |
| Bluetooth | works | Adding board file for wifi will improve RF performance |
| Camera | x | |
| CPUfreq | works | |
| Display | x | check below |
| Display sensors | x | for rotation detect, light detect, etc. slpi related? |
| EC | works | Battery and adapter status, wmi, ucsi,maybe modern standby |
| EFI variables | works | |
| Fingerprint reader | x | FTE7001, gpio185 |
| GPU | works | Freedreno 690(FD690), vulkan-freedreno for vulkan support. |
| Hibernation | x | |
| Keyboard & Touchpad | works | |
| Keyboard fn keys | partial | Assistant key(between F6 and F7), WIFI key(F9), and Manager key(F10), they don't work. |
| Lid | works | |
| NVMe SSD | works | |
| PCIe (x4) | works | |
| Power key | works | |
| Remoteproc | works | adsp, cdsp |
| RTC | works | |
| Suspend | works | s2idle |
| Thermal sensors | works | |
| Touchscreen over i2c | partial | weird behavior, I think NHLOS use this, such as BIOS configuration |
| Touchscreen over spi | x | Anyways, it uses spi on Windows. Driver reference1, 2, 3, it is a suffering to port it. |
| TPM | x | |
| USB | works | |
| USB-PD | works | fast charging(45W+) supported with UCSI EC driver |
| USB-C DisplayPort Alt Mode | works | |
| Video acceleration | works | see below |
| Virtualisation | x | |
| Volumn keys | works | |
| Watchdog | partial | One in sc8280xp works, another in EC not |
| Wi-Fi | works | see below |
| WMI related features | partial | charging control, FN lock, smart charge, thermal sensors and so on |
Caution
Recently, UCSI subsystem is buggy for this tablet. Chances are that failed to boot(auto reboot). Only plug into Type-C ports after booting up.
Addition: UCSI failed to register in 6.14, no sure about future (I don't own this device anymore, no fix from me)
Support 2-lane only for now(only half of clocks are enabled), Johan mentioned this also, but we don't require insert orientation.
In default, the bandwidth of per lane is limited to 5.4Gbps(HBR2, DisplayPort 1.2 or later). If you want to a higher limit, set this.
...
&mdss0_dp0_out {
...
link-frequencies = /bits/ 64 <1620000000 2700000000 5400000000 8100000000>;
...
};
...
According to the dcoument of Windows Dev Kit 2023, USB-C ports support 8.1Gbps per lane(HBR3, DisplayPort 1.3 or later).
In my case, the monitor supports DisplayPort 1.1 with 2.7Gbps per lane, data rate is 4.32Gbps(8b10b coding), basically, it means I can only use 1920x1080@60Hz. However, if we tweak the timings(at your risks), we can support a decent resolution with a rich timings, 24bpp with 2048(+180H.Blanking)x1280(+60V.Blanking)@60hz
If you encounter the following, reboot, it is rare, but still possible.
gaokun_ucsi.ucsi gaokun_ec.ucsi.0: error -ETIMEDOUT: PPM init failed
gaokun_ucsi.ucsi gaokun_ec.ucsi.0: con1: failed to register alt modes
If there is no issue now, let's plug in wait for seconds.
Note: if you plug out when there is no other video output device(logical), replug will not work.
Recently, use the X13s' profile.
sed -i 's/LENOVO.*ThinkPad X13s.*/LENOVO.*ThinkPad X13s.*|HUAWEI.*MateBook E.*\"/' /usr/share/alsa/ucm2/Qualcomm/sc8280xp/sc8280xp.conf
echo '72' /sys/class/power_supply/gaokun-ec-battery/smart_charge_delay
echo '40' /sys/class/power_supply/gaokun-ec-battery/charge_control_start_threshold
echo '70' /sys/class/power_supply/gaokun-ec-battery/charge_control_end_threshold
echo '0/1' /sys/class/power_supply/gaokun-ec-battery/battery_adaptive_charge
That means plugged in after 72 hours, charging level is limited to 70%.
When the laptop is just connected to a power adapter, it starts charging until the battery level reaches 70% if the battery level is lower than 70%, or the battery level does not increase if the battery level is 70% or higher. This is normal.
When the power adapter is always connected, the laptop starts charging if its battery level is lower than 40%, and stops charging when the battery level reaches 70%.
Further explanation, check Huawei support page
The values would not be saved after you shut down and plugged out, you can use udev to set the default values, like
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", KERNEL=="gaokun-ec-battery", ATTR{smart_charge_delay}="0", ATTRS{charge_control_start_threshold}="45", ATTRS{charge_control_end_threshold}="50", ATTRS{battery_adaptive_charge}="1"
- front camera sensor: hi846(cci2, gpio12: cci_i2c_sda, gpio13: cci_i2c_scl, CAMCC_MCLK3_CLK: 24MHz, gpio17, reset: gpio15)
- rear camera sensor: s5k3l6(cci1, gpio10: cci_i2c_sda, gpio11: cci_i2c_scl, CAMCC_MCLK4_CLK: 24MHz, gpio6, reset: gpio7)
Front sensor can be probed, no camera video.
The rear sensor can't be detected.
The main problem is baclkight, resetting panel causes backlight hardware to shutdown. DSC with video mode is another problem, but I believe this won't causes a truly black screen.
gpio(0,1,8,20,24,52,53,...): gpio0 is backlight enable pin, gpioset -c 4 0=1/0, backlight turn on/off, gpio 52. 53, (vddp, vddn), more infomation, check here.
Addition: Some patches are first proposed by matalama80td3l at here. I verified and completed them.
echo 0/1 > /sys/devices/platform/soc@0/ac0000.geniqup/a9c000.i2c/i2c-15/15-0038/fn_lock
0: disable the fn key(hotkey first, such as press F1 to decrease brightness)
1: enable the fn key(function key first), you can only trigger hotkey with Fn + F1-12
BTW, you can press Fn key(light on) to reverse it temporarily.
I don't know these sensors for which devices, but you can read them
sensors
gaokun_ec_hwmon-i2c-15-38
Adapter: Geni-I2C
temp1: +47.4°C
...
temp20: +25.9°C
SLPI(Sensor Low Power Island), more details.
[ 2.606897] remoteproc remoteproc2: remote processor 2400000.remoteproc is now up
[ 2.613505] qcom,fastrpc 2400000.remoteproc:glink-edge.fastrpcglink-apps-dsp.-1.-1: no reserved DMA memory for FASTRPC
No IOMMU, The firmware of slpi can be loaded, you can also find /dev/fastrpc-sdsp, but the DT in my patch is wrong, sensors won't work.
The firmware can be loaded. It supports v4l2_m2m, never tested it.
Use the script,
extract all files from the board file(remote one),
./ath11k-bdencoder -e board-2.bin
edit board-2.json, let us use x13s one calibration data,
...
"board": [
...
{
"names": [
"bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17cb,subsystem-device=0108,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=255,variant=HW_GK3"
],
"data": "bus=pci,vendor=17cb,device=1103,subsystem-vendor=17cb,subsystem-device=0108,qmi-chip-id=2,qmi-board-id=140,variant=LE_X13S.bin"
},
...
]
...
regenerate it,
./ath11k-bdencoder -c board-2.json