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Qualcomm has previously announced their desire to support Linux, and they have an upstream roadmap: https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-

Qualcomm has previously announced their desire to support Linux, and they have an upstream roadmap: https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-linux-kernel-support-for-the-snapdragon-x-elite https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

walterbell 2y ago
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350408 https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/qualcomm-goes-where-apple-wont-readies-official-linux-support-for-snapdragon-x-elite https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/qualcomm-goes-wh... > Qualcomm has most of the critical functions working inside.. Linux 6.9.. critical functions include UEFI-based boot support along with all the standard bootloaders like Grub and system-d.. Functions that are being worked on for future iterations of Linux include additions to battery support, on-board display connectivity, external DisplayPort connectivity, sleep and wake-up functions on the GPU, camera support, video support, better CPU frequency support, and speaker/mic/headset enablement. These functions are expected to arrive in Linux 6.10 and 6.11. $900 dev kit ships later this month, Mac Mini form factor, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40430579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40430579
- MBCook 2y ago
  Does that well get good benchmarks soon?
  - wmf 2y ago
    Yeah, Linux is noticeably faster than Windows.
- ahartmetz 2y ago
  It says explicitly "for Windows". Is it locked to MS signed operating systems (which do not include Linux for ARM)?
  - walterbell 2y ago
    Qualcomm is funding Linaro for upstream Linux support, while building desktop processors and aiming for 50% of the PC market in 5 years. A dev kit that is locked to a single vendor would not encourage adoption. With Apple's refusal to let customers run VMs on iPads, ex-Apple Nuvia/Oryon/Qualcomm has a window of opportunity to provide an open, standardized platform for Arm PCs. QC dev kit is one target device tree, but PC OEM devices will have hardware beyond the Oryon SoC, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431467 We need to wait for shipping device to confirm if EL2 will be available to Linux, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=my123 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=my123 The system firmware will ship with 3 boot modes selectable via the setup interface: - Windows (this one has the Windows tcblauncher escalated to EL2 through Secure Launch) - Linux (this one stays at EL1) - Linux w/ KVM (which jumps to EL2 before kernel handover)

walterbell 2y ago

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350408 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40350408 https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/qualcomm-goes-where-apple-wont-readies-official-linux-support-for-snapdragon-x-elite https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/qualcomm-goes-wh... > Qualcomm has most of the critical functions working inside.. Linux 6.9.. critical functions include UEFI-based boot support along with all the standard bootloaders like Grub and system-d.. Functions that are being worked on for future iterations of Linux include additions to battery support, on-board display connectivity, external DisplayPort connectivity, sleep and wake-up functions on the GPU, camera support, video support, better CPU frequency support, and speaker/mic/headset enablement. These functions are expected to arrive in Linux 6.10 and 6.11. $900 dev kit ships later this month, Mac Mini form factor, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40430579 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40430579

MBCook 2y ago
Does that well get good benchmarks soon?
- wmf 2y ago
  Yeah, Linux is noticeably faster than Windows.
ahartmetz 2y ago
It says explicitly "for Windows". Is it locked to MS signed operating systems (which do not include Linux for ARM)?
- walterbell 2y ago
  Qualcomm is funding Linaro for upstream Linux support, while building desktop processors and aiming for 50% of the PC market in 5 years. A dev kit that is locked to a single vendor would not encourage adoption. With Apple's refusal to let customers run VMs on iPads, ex-Apple Nuvia/Oryon/Qualcomm has a window of opportunity to provide an open, standardized platform for Arm PCs. QC dev kit is one target device tree, but PC OEM devices will have hardware beyond the Oryon SoC, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431467 We need to wait for shipping device to confirm if EL2 will be available to Linux, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=my123 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=my123 The system firmware will ship with 3 boot modes selectable via the setup interface: - Windows (this one has the Windows tcblauncher escalated to EL2 through Secure Launch) - Linux (this one stays at EL1) - Linux w/ KVM (which jumps to EL2 before kernel handover)