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Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces New Collaboration With Qualcomm (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Overall, probably a positive thing as the improvements made here will flow downstream. I'm actually looking forward to seeing the performance of these new Qualcomm chips in laptops.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Eh, I kinda doubt too much will come of it. There is already strong incentive for ARM support because of servers and for Qualcomm-specific hardware because of Android. That is unless they plan to use completely different architectures and drivers for their new, laptop-focused stuff (and only that).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

If there’s actual upstream support, it would be a massive shift for Qualcomm

Red Hat has been trying to get them to support their processors for years now with no luck

Google gave up on Qualcomm supporting their processors and told them that they aren’t allowed to modify the kernel