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Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers
- andrewstuart 10mo agoWhat are their drivers like? Fully open source? Unlikely methinks.
- jordand 10mo agoLast I read was Mesa support for those Adreno GPUs is still work-in-process. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250930-kaana-gpu-support-v1-0-73530b0700ed@oss.qualcomm.com/ https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250930-kaana-gpu-support...
- 999900000999 10mo agoWould be nice if Qualcomm worked with at least 1 OEM to get at least one Linux distro supported at launch. Hypothetically if they did I'd pre order one.
- ra 10mo agoIf we had a vibrant open source TPU interface, inference / training stack... what would be left of Nvidia?
- onion2k 10mo agoWe have that for GPUs and nVidia were doing pretty well before AI hardware started being popular.
- david-gpu 10mo agoShortly after this interview, Eric announced that he is leaving Qualcomm.
- daemonologist 10mo agoEric's post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-demers-7bb3b32_next-week-will-be-my-last-week-at-qualcomm-activity-7415396545501548544-zQvY https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-demers-7bb3b32_next-week...
- jonkoops 10mo agoSurely it will work properly on Linux with upstreamed drivers, right? Right?
- aseipp 10mo agoMesa already has initial support for Adreno 8xx[1] and the DRM side was already merged into the kernel back in November.[2] [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38450 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ff3bf272156615d6c3daa5286243408bf05e44 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ff3bf272156615d6c...
- bfrog 10mo agoIf only Qualcomm knew how to do software more than lawyer.
- dingi 10mo agoWhat's the point? They are e-waste as soon as they leave the factory.
- speed_spread 10mo agoThis guy sure knows his Poutine. Unfortunately nothing described in the article is relevant without proper Linux support which is still unlikely despite Qualcomm's repeated pledges.
- petermcneeley 10mo agoI see the mention of Wave64. It would be nice if we could all standardize on 32. The hw backend can do what it wishes (dual/quad issue etc).