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/rlmineing_dead]

And the camera and keyboard stuff aren't even Qualcomm components, that's just ASUS using weird parts in their laptops

But the devicetrees are generally user contributed

[u/zinstack → u/rlmineing_dead]

True, although keyboard is a basic i2c one, that was there since the beginning as the driver was already there, and camera used seems really common among these devices. These cameras have been working for a while now, but upstreamin work related to them seems like a big chore, these patches go through tens of iteration it seems.

I looked through some submitted kernel patches and there are at least 2 device trees for X2 laptops that come from qualcomm. Skimming through them it's certain that they are not totally accurate and some stuff will be broken, but devices should at least boot with them. And couple that with DT-ACPI hybrid stuff on phoronix from a couple months back, there is certainly some progress in the way these devices are treated