Qualcomm launches Linux on Snapdragon X2 Early Developer Preview
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Qualcomm officially released the Linux on Snapdragon X2 Series Early Developer Preview, providing upstream kernel support, device tree configurations, Adreno GPU and Hexagon NPU drivers, and Debian 13 compatibility. The preview is available free through the Qualcomm Developer Network.
“We are thrilled to roll out the early developer preview for Linux on Snapdragon X2 series platforms, empowering the developer community with the foundational tools needed to build, test, and optimize open-source workloads.”
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OpenBSD developer Tobias Heider (tobhe@) has already committed the first pieces of OpenBSD/arm64 support for these Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite laptops."This gets USB, keyboard and touchpad working in ACPI mode on the HP Elitebook X G2q."https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=178891082169317&w=2Tobias (who also works for Canonical) recently demoed…
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I hope Qualcomm upstreams all the device tree kernel level stuff to Linux for every laptop model. One of the things I don't like about Arm Laptops is—for example—how even if a SoC is supported upstream, if the manufacturer does not upload a device tree for their device, then you're cooked.I read that while these Snapdragon laptops do technically…
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> this work is focused on laptops with Snapdragon X2 Series. It does not currently cover desktop form factors, earlier Snapdragon X platforms, or other development boards. Readiness also varies by OEM design and Snapdragon X2 Series variant.So same ARM BS as usual - AMD and Intel x64 are still the kings when it comes to out the door Linux…
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This is great news - the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E-96-100 isn't too far off the Apple M5 Pro.[1]
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Give me something that is 80% as efficient, 80% as good hw as the apple m-series but runs Debian (or Ubuntu) and I am happy to pay apple+ prices for pure linux experience. I say this as someone who just bought a new m5 machine. I have seen framework/sys76 but never pulled trigger.I don't really care about raw performance, just want long battery…
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I believe the Orin AGX is in a similar position. It does a UEFI boot but you absolutely have to supply a correct dtb and if you don't then key peripherals like USB and ethernet can just completely not work, or in one case I experienced, subtly malfunction in a way that appears to be fine but throws off a bunch of extra radiation that fails a…
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I think this is huge. I thought about getting one of these chips a long time ago, but linux support was just a breaker. I ended up sticking to my current laptop and getting a macbook some years afterThe "original" X Elite was also supposed to get good linux support but it unfortunately never happened.So hopefully the X2 will actually happen!
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In case anyone else is wondering what they mean by linux support;> We're upstreaming core drivers for Snapdragon X2 Series — including the Hexagon NPU and Adreno GPU — to open the door to developers and partners.Glad this isn't going to be some semi-proprietary thing like support for chromebooks. Hopefully it continues.
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I think a lot of people don't realize the level of performance Qualcomm has reached with these. This is the closest competition to Apple's M series that we have, for the laptop form factor at least. They are better than Intel and AMD's best. I'd love to buy an X2 laptop with Linux preinstalled and supported.
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