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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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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@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Since they started targeting the PC segment with these chips to take on Apple's insanely priced m-class chips, and Amazon and Google's custom ARM datacenter chips.

They partnered with Canonical to do the first run of development for kernel support in the past year, and now it sounds like they're moving to get the graphics driver developed and upstreamed.

[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago

Graphics driver for sc8280xp are already a thing. There are more issues in convenience daily driving linux, currently. From the top of my head:

firmware update path
dtb update/loading path
no virtualization
no universal dock compability
missing HDMI/DP features

I suspect that these issues are common between their ARM chips and will be addressed for both chips almost simultaneously. But I have no real idea on kernel development. And their documentation is only shared with linaro so one can only guess.