Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers

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25 points·rbanffy··13 comments

If only Qualcomm knew how to do software more than lawyer.

Shortly after this interview, Eric announced that he is leaving Qualcomm.

Eric's post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-demers-7bb3b32_next-week...

Surely it will work properly on Linux with upstreamed drivers, right? Right?

Mesa already has initial support for Adreno 8xx[1] and the DRM side was already merged into the kernel back in November.[2]

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ff3bf272156615d6c...

This guy sure knows his Poutine. Unfortunately nothing described in the article is relevant without proper Linux support which is still unlikely despite Qualcomm's repeated pledges.

I see the mention of Wave64. It would be nice if we could all standardize on 32. The hw backend can do what it wishes (dual/quad issue etc).

If we had a vibrant open source TPU interface, inference / training stack... what would be left of Nvidia?

We have that for GPUs and nVidia were doing pretty well before AI hardware started being popular.

What are their drivers like?

Fully open source? Unlikely methinks.

Last I read was Mesa support for those Adreno GPUs is still work-in-process. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250930-kaana-gpu-support...

Would be nice if Qualcomm worked with at least 1 OEM to get at least one Linux distro supported at launch.

Hypothetically if they did I'd pre order one.

What's the point? They are e-waste as soon as they leave the factory.

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