I’m almost certain there will be talks about this at Linaro Connect. The kernel side is mostly done (QC are much more proactive getting stuff upstream these days) so it’s likely firmware that is the final thing that needs fixing.
I hope you are right. It’s been 9 months since the release of Snapdragon X devices and to my knowledge running Linux on such devices is still not really viable in a production type environment.
The software runs, but unfortunately the manufacturers didn’t bother writing any drivers. I considered getting a ThinkPad x13s some months ago, but the driver support is so bad it couldn’t even do suspend properly. And this laptop was released 3 years ago.
ARM laptops would be much better running Linux. Almost all Linux software can be compiled for ARM.
I believe it’s still a massive pain to get Snapdragon X laptops to run Linux.
I’m almost certain there will be talks about this at Linaro Connect. The kernel side is mostly done (QC are much more proactive getting stuff upstream these days) so it’s likely firmware that is the final thing that needs fixing.
I hope you are right. It’s been 9 months since the release of Snapdragon X devices and to my knowledge running Linux on such devices is still not really viable in a production type environment.
The firmware is the key. Meeting the SBA specifications is what allows various distro install mechanisms to work out if the box.
The software runs, but unfortunately the manufacturers didn’t bother writing any drivers. I considered getting a ThinkPad x13s some months ago, but the driver support is so bad it couldn’t even do suspend properly. And this laptop was released 3 years ago.
Wasn’t there something about ARM not supporting universal drivers, thus making supporting a device a pain?