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Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

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163 points wmf | 2 comments | 24 Sep 25 22:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.442s | source
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groguzt ◴[24 Sep 25 23:02 UTC] No.45366953[source]▶
Linux support is still basically non-existent for the first gen, and they made all this deal about supporting Linux and the open source community. This is to say, don't trust them
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eigenform ◴[25 Sep 25 00:39 UTC] No.45367830[source]▶
Not surprising considering I haven't seen a programming manual or actual datasheet for these things in the first place. Usually helps if you tell the community how to interact with your hardware ..
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1. wmf ◴[25 Sep 25 01:09 UTC] No.45368096[source]▶
That ended 10-20 years ago. The best you can hope for now is vendor-provided drivers.
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2. eigenform ◴[25 Sep 25 03:32 UTC] No.45369012[source]▶
Not even true: Arm, Intel, AMD, and most other hardware vendors (who are actively making an effort to support Linux on their parts) actually publish useful[^1] documentation.

edit: Also, not knocking the Qualcomm folks working on Linux here, just observing that the lack of hardware documentation doesn't exactly help reeling in contributors.

[^1]: Maybe in some cases not as useful as it could be when bringing up some OS on hardware, but certainly better than nothing