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Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU

(www.qualcomm.com)
163 points wmf | 1 comments | 24 Sep 25 22:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.332s | source
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MisterTea ◴[25 Sep 25 14:13 UTC] No.45372834[source]▶
Here's my big question: are there datasheets/programmers manuals available or is this yet another proprietary mess of a SoC that ships undocumented Linux drivers with binary blobs? No thanks.

I will not spend money on hardware no one can reliably patch or write drivers for. I also want other operating system maintainers to be able to write drivers and get booting.

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1. bfrog ◴[26 Sep 25 15:29 UTC] No.45387632[source]▶
This is exactly the issue with Qualcomm. If they actually had datasheets/ref manuals/open drivers... it'd be a no brainer. The part looks great.

The reality is this company is notoriously a law firm with a small technical staff on the side.