This concise article furnishes a status update regarding the current support for OpenBSD on the HONOR MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon.

Current OpenBSD Support Summary

The HONOR MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon is a system-on-a-chip that is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform. It is imperative to note that the utilized firmware should be signed by a vendor for designated devices. Typically, this firmware can be obtained via the Windows Update channel or the HONOR website.

ComponentWorks?Notes
3D acelerationNoNo driver, support quite unlikley
AudioNoNo driver
Battery statusYesNot each boot
BluetoothNo
Fingerprint sensorNoShows up as a ugen device, no driver
Keyboard backlightNo
Power managementNoDriver in progress
SSDYes
TouchpadYesMultitouch doesn’t work each boot
TouchscreenYesTouchscreen doesn’t work each boot
USBYesUSB-C ports don’t work each boot for data
WebcamYes
WirelessNoDriver in progress
ZZZ / HibernationNoInappropriate ioctl for device
zzz / SuspendNoSystem is freezed

The dmesg from OpenBSD 7.7-beta.

Other Systems

It was observed that Fedora 42, Ubuntu 24.10 and Ubuntu Concept (image oracular-desktop-arm64+x1e-20250509.iso), NetBSD 10.1 and FreeBSD 14.2, all of them were unable to boot on the machine.

The relevant issue in the Ubuntu-Concept project: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-concept/+bug/2092406

Thus, created devicetree was sent to Linux Kernel upstream: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/87jzazzx17.wl-kirill@korins.ky/