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Re: Qualcomm Linux 2.0

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Post by pseudosavant »

mrheosuper wrote: post #9
keyle wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently tried to get BSD/Linux to work on my omnibook X 14 and... it's been a journey! Eventually I got it to work well with [1] and extracted firmware off github because I had wiped Windows and all partitions into oblivion. I was looking for the bliss of fan-less linux with ARM. The joy! [2] [1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-e... [2] the fans are ON permanently

If you want fanless arm linux machine, why not macbook m2 air + asahi linux ?

Asahi still doesn't support a lot of basic things like: external displays, Thunderbolt, hardware accelerated video decoding, 120hz refresh rate, etc.

Re: Qualcomm Linux 2.0

#12

Post by sharts »

mrheosuper wrote: post #9
keyle wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently tried to get BSD/Linux to work on my omnibook X 14 and... it's been a journey! Eventually I got it to work well with [1] and extracted firmware off github because I had wiped Windows and all partitions into oblivion. I was looking for the bliss of fan-less linux with ARM. The joy! [2] [1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-e... [2] the fans are ON permanently

If you want fanless arm linux machine, why not macbook m2 air + asahi linux ?

Asahi is like a decade away from being 100% tho

Re: Qualcomm Linux 2.0

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Post by pylotlight »

_fzslm wrote: post #4
LorenDB wrote: post #2

And here I was hoping they'd decided to support Linux on the Snapdragon X2 chips.

I have a gorgeous Surface Pro 11 X1 Elite that can run just enough Linux to tease me with how beautiful it could be, but it's still unstable enough that I can't daily it. Torture .

It's really that weak?

Re: Qualcomm Linux 2.0

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Post by jjtheblunt »

mrheosuper wrote: post #9
keyle wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently tried to get BSD/Linux to work on my omnibook X 14 and... it's been a journey! Eventually I got it to work well with [1] and extracted firmware off github because I had wiped Windows and all partitions into oblivion. I was looking for the bliss of fan-less linux with ARM. The joy! [2] [1] https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-concept-snapdragon-x-e... [2] the fans are ON permanently

If you want fanless arm linux machine, why not macbook m2 air + asahi linux ?

apple silicon is virtualization capable and the UTM app (on the app store, but open source so you can build it too) wraps Apple's hypervisor framework, allows me to run on my macbook air (m2 earlier, recently updated to m5 just to get more memory) macos as well as arm versions of both fedora and arch, with plasma and gnome (and i've used hyprland etc to toy around).

it's important to set UTM to use Apple Silicon _virtualization_, because otherwise it uses QEMU and is thereby emulating. With Apple Silicon virtualization, having macos and arch and fedora all going at once is amazing.

pertinent references :

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

or search for UTM on the Apple app store, where it's prebuilt (and that's what i use successfully).

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor

Re: Qualcomm Linux 2.0

#16

Post by diabllicseagull »

wmf wrote: post #3
LorenDB wrote: post #2

And here I was hoping they'd decided to support Linux on the Snapdragon X2 chips.

It's happening: https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-EliteBook-X-G2q-Linux

From the June 4th article: "These patches are a result of a collaboration between a couple of Qualcomm engineers taking part in an internal sprint and were created over 3 days."

it's not giving me any warm and fuzzy.

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