For QCOM the bindings for the base drivers are stable, and despite them forking drivers, the one for the others generally are - too The biggest concern there i

For QCOM the bindings for the base drivers are stable, and despite them forking drivers, the one for the others generally are - too The biggest concern there is the PEP power management mechanism instead of using what ACPI provides. > This is because things like buses, storage and display are standardized That's a rosy view of x86. Quite some laptops ship with Intel RST set up such as stock Windows wouldn't boot on them before adding that driver. Display (frame buffer) is standardised too as UEFI GOP, but that no longer applies when the GPU driver takes over of course. Storage controllers & USB bindings are standardised too. Doing a Qualcomm driverless boot on those platforms is very much possible, with storage and USB available, enough to install the OS and make it reach the desktop. (and on a side note, as far back as the Snapdragon 810, PCIe was very much used. The Lumia 950 (XL) had their Wi-Fi controller over a PCIe bus.)