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The Go is an Intel-based chipset and they finally dropped the buggy as hell marvel chipset for wifi... What "shitty" hardware are you speaking of? I love my SP

The Go is an Intel-based chipset and they finally dropped the buggy as hell marvel chipset for wifi... What "shitty" hardware are you speaking of? I love my SP4, may replace it with a Surace Go gen2 if they keep the formfacter/weight down like that.

craftyguy 8y ago
Judging by the review there on reddit, cameras don't work, and the ath10k wifi chip doesn't work without screwing around with the firmware it requires to operate.
- supernovae 8y ago
  So write some drivers :) BTW, The Qualcomm wifi chipset is a BLESSING and considering the Surface Go is < 1 month old i'm sure its only a matter of time before open source drivers improve for it.
  - craftyguy 8y ago
    > So write some drivers :) Uh, I (and you, and everyone except Qualcomm) cannot do that. ath10k drivers are inherently broken without a proprietary firmware because "blah blah 802.11ac blah blah" waves hands around The atheros chip in that microsoft thing has been around for quite a while.
  - supernovae 8y ago
    >The atheros chip in that microsoft thing has been around for quite a while. Nope. The atheros chip is new, every single surface device used MARVEL and MARVEL was total crap - always having issues connecting, flaky drivers, poor standby experience. The surface go is the first device to not use marvel and i hope the next Pro's and Surface Laptops go atheros. https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k
  - Koshkin 8y ago
    > So write some drivers This old adage has never made sense to me. Not everyone can write software (let alone device drivers).
- jamesdutc 8y ago
  There are, as far as I can tell, no Linux drivers for the OV2740 and IMX136 cameras (yet.) It's unfortunate that the Qualcomm WiFi does not work out of the box. However, the fix is fairly easy, and day-to-day WiFi performance is solid: fast, stable, no issues resuming from hibernate/suspend.

craftyguy 8y ago

Judging by the review there on reddit, cameras don't work, and the ath10k wifi chip doesn't work without screwing around with the firmware it requires to operate.

supernovae 8y ago
So write some drivers :) BTW, The Qualcomm wifi chipset is a BLESSING and considering the Surface Go is < 1 month old i'm sure its only a matter of time before open source drivers improve for it.
- craftyguy 8y ago
  > So write some drivers :) Uh, I (and you, and everyone except Qualcomm) cannot do that. ath10k drivers are inherently broken without a proprietary firmware because "blah blah 802.11ac blah blah" waves hands around The atheros chip in that microsoft thing has been around for quite a while.
- supernovae 8y ago
  >The atheros chip in that microsoft thing has been around for quite a while. Nope. The atheros chip is new, every single surface device used MARVEL and MARVEL was total crap - always having issues connecting, flaky drivers, poor standby experience. The surface go is the first device to not use marvel and i hope the next Pro's and Surface Laptops go atheros. https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k
- Koshkin 8y ago
  > So write some drivers This old adage has never made sense to me. Not everyone can write software (let alone device drivers).
jamesdutc 8y ago
There are, as far as I can tell, no Linux drivers for the OV2740 and IMX136 cameras (yet.) It's unfortunate that the Qualcomm WiFi does not work out of the box. However, the fix is fairly easy, and day-to-day WiFi performance is solid: fast, stable, no issues resuming from hibernate/suspend.