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Didn't they say something similar about the first ones?

Consider me cautiously optimistic.

Qualcomm has been upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X for the past 2 years or so, but the community is still having issues with drivers and firmware on devices. I bought a surprisingly capable Lenovo mini PC with a Snapdragon X at a massive discount and it's stuck on Windows 11 for now.

> Qualcomm has been upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X for the past 2 years or so, but the community is still having issues with drivers and firmware on devices.

Is QCM slow to upstream or are they doing things in an incomplete manner or is there some other reason?

I'm trying to imagine a world where intel or amd releases a new platform/chip and it takes _two years_ to get linux booting on it

With x1 it was worse. They were literally demoing them running Debian because windows was not ready, but after release silence.

Yeah there was a blog post about it but seems not much came from the effort

> but seems not much came from the effort

That's been my experience dealing with QCM based devices running linux in the past. Some OEM buys a batch of chips, gets a reference design and an old version of the linux kernel with a zillion out-of-tree hacks and patches that make updates impossible.

I generally advise clients to use rockchip as they have _very_ good mainline support and put any QCM modem at the end of a USB connection so it doesn't hold the product back.

> Consider me cautiously optimistic.

Consider me dangerously pessimistic

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