Linux on Snapdragon X Elite Laptop with Tim Benton at the Linaro booth at Embedded World 2024 #ew24

loki , 17 days ago

Wow, Linaro. that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. They were the ones to optimize Android builds during the IceCreamSandwich days and just last day I was wondering if there were any third party optimization project still out there. All the best to them.

…kavin.rocks/…/linaro_build_optimizations_that_ca…

j4k3 , 18 days ago

Never talked about the important thing. Are the kernel modules fully open source and is the SoC fully documented publicly. If those two aspects are not a yes, this entire affair is an attempt to steal hardware ownership just like phones.

Estebiu , 18 days ago

Yeah, exactly. At that point better get an m1; at least the work has already been done on them.

thequantumcog , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Yes, they submitted initial patchset to Linux kernel back in October (1 day after snapdragon X announcement). On Qualcomm’s website they say that full support for the chip will be merged into Linux kernel within six months.

j4k3 , 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

So no, the marketing shysters are simply trying to silence the self aware minority. /s

Suoko OP , 16 days ago

I like the arm world because you don’t have only two players which are boring and are not good at all if you think of a world wide technological progress. It’s a rather poor world actually.

I’m trying a cheap arm Chromebook now and I can say it could replace a standard pc/mac already, in terms of performances. Mediatek can already challenge apple and snapdragon so we already have 3 players but I think Samsung, and unisoc will enter the arena. Rockchip already did it with chromebooks and they look enough too.

Suoko OP , 16 days ago

And thinking about prices, considering the t820 that is about 150€ with the Nubia neo (or neo2), you could have chromebooks for maybe 200€, if you add 12" screen and stylus support.