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Snapdragon hasn’t had mainline kernel support and has always been a pain to set up, enough so that nobody does it. This is using a snapdragon processor. Those are also fairly powerful.

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Wasn’t Snapdragon support added recently? I feel like I saw a note on that having happened when I was looking up what SOC this thing was packing, but I could be wrong.

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Yeah, for the new Qualcomm chips they’re using in the Windows for ARM devices. Not sure if they still need device trees to work properly or if they have an UEFI like.

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Is this in part due to everyone wanting to put Linux on those new “copilot pcs”?

I’d love to have a linux’d one of those that battery life from what I’ve heard is insane

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Qualcomm had an exclusivity deal with Microsoft which has expired. I think that’s what is causing them to put relevant code in mainline.

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Ahh so it’s qualcomm themselves doing this? that’s awesome actually I thought it was just more people were interested in reverse engineering them now to get linux going on the new wave of laptops

Shame gaming on arm kinda sucks at the moment as a whole though

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