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Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 4 months ago by just_another_person to c/[email protected]

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A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It'll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You are very wrong here. They open-source a lot of things and they even used to have their own open-source modified version of Android for their phone chips.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OK, correction accepted. I probably did conflate them with Broadcom. Someone should let those ubuntu folks know though.. ;)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh it's ok. Broadcom is a very bad company in terms of open-source and Linux support. Their most known products are WiFi modules for laptops. Qualcomm on the other hand is probably one of the most open-source friendly commercial companies and it's known for very popular mobile processors such as the Snapdragon series.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't call Qualcomm great for foss. It just better than absolutely terrible. Also Broadcom is a terrible company all around. They buy others and then wring them dry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If the X Elite mainline kernel support pans out, Qualcomm may become top tier in terms of support. It would certainly make them the most important Linux ARM chip. We will see.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

You mean like what they're doing to VMware and canning perpetual licenses the second they took over? I guess in some ways they are actually great for FOSS, because I've never seen more interest by Enterprise in Proxmox before they made that decision.