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Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

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163 points wmf | 3 comments | 24 Sep 25 22:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.476s | source
1. renewiltord ◴[24 Sep 25 23:26 UTC] No.45367186[source]▶
These all have nightmarish support. They're not a big deal for Qualcomm so the driver support is garbage. And you're stuck on their kernel like one of those Raspberry Pi knock offs. It's just really hard to take them seriously.

Ironically M1 chip is better supported on Linux.

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2. adastra22 ◴[25 Sep 25 00:18 UTC] No.45367671[source]▶
Yes, but the M1/M2 only…
3. overfeed ◴[25 Sep 25 15:25 UTC] No.45373894[source]▶
> And you're stuck on their kernel like one of those Raspberry Pi knock offs. It's just really hard to take them seriously.

Qualcomm has beem mainlining Snapdragon X drivers to the 6.x kernel tree for over a year now. There have been multiple frontpage HN posts about this in the past 12 months.

Webcam/mic/speaker support may be a WIP depending on your model, but snapdragon X Elite has been booting Linux for months now, using only drivers in Linus' tree. The budget chips (Snapdragon X Plus) have far less direct support form Qualcomm, but some independent hackers have put in heroic effort to make those run Linux too.