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What's the software story expected to be like with these desktop Qualcomm chips? Any chance of official Linux support, or are we just getting Windows drivers an
by jsheard 3y ago
What's the software story expected to be like with these desktop Qualcomm chips? Any chance of official Linux support, or are we just getting Windows drivers and maybe semi-working reverse engineered Linux support years down the line?
- onefiveone 3y agohttps://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Mainline-Linux-2024 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Mainline-Linux-2024
- jacooper 3y ago> But still a work-in-progress is audio support, DP Alt-Mode, enabling the DSPs, USB-C power delivery, and GPU acceleration. AKA still garbage.
- perihelions 3y agoThinkpad has a ARM Snapdragon model and people have been working on it in Linux for a while. Linux support is unofficial, and still crap, years after release. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37431710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37431710 ("Linux on the Arm-Based ThinkPad X13S: Getting There")
- exabrial 3y agoSystem76 hopefully listening! (To prevent rumors, I’ve never seen them mention arm support before… maybe someday)
- jsheard 3y agoI don't think there's much System76 can do if the ARM SOC vendors aren't willing to cooperate by openly releasing code and documentation for their parts.
- tomComb 3y agoHopefully it gets chrome OS support so that it has official Linux drivers.
- sys_64738 3y agoUsually vendors of ARM64 chips provide the Linux support straight from the off. What's the story here that Qualcomm doesn't?
- bcaxis 3y agoRumors are of mainline support pretty quickly. But the proof will be when it actually happens.