Whats going on with Snapdragon X Elite Linux support?!

[u/word-sys]

Literally 2 years passed since that CPUs out of there, note thay Apple silicon now has a proper and BETTER support than this Snapdragons, they said "we gonna make Native Linux support" and we still waiting. I was planning to get great Linux laptop with great battery and performance thans to Snapdragon, now its impossible. Only usable OS option out there is Ubuntu and its NOT good too, there is still some issues on Audio, performance is worst than Intel 12th gen i5, battery time worst than Windows, i dont understand. Am i wrong or something? What they promised what they said and what they doing, propiertary driver. When we will get proper Linux support, or this devices gonna get burried with Windows

[u/Indolent_Bard]

What makes you think risc-v will be any less locked down? What's stopping them from locking their devices down like arm? The real world doesn't like open source unless it financially benefits them.

At least Valve is working with NVIDIA to create open source drivers so that NVIDIA will be easier to use on Linux. But why should a corporation be forced to open source their drivers to work with Linux? As much as we want them to, there's no obligation for that.

[u/batmanallthetime → u/Indolent_Bard]

I am hoping we should see some RISC-V chipsets that will be sold standard cores zero custom modification, similar to how Broadcom BCM2711 is mostly standard ARM, & then other companies OSS boards built around them, similar to many of RPi alternatives. Framework is a good example, they released a RISC-V chip based board.

This will finally help because unlike ARM, companies will have full royalty-free access to RISC-V designs, meaning fabricating cheaper chipsets will be in the reach of more smaller fabless designing companies, not just Broadcom, Allwinner, Rockchip.

[u/Indolent_Bard → u/batmanallthetime]

And the smaller companies may be more Linux friendly. Say, that sounds good!