That kind of means that Qualcomm will open source some of their stuff, so the kernel can communicated with the CPU?
More likely close sources drivers.
Wait, Qualcomm open sources drivers?
Open sauce blobs, as in - you can have em.
That’s freeware, though.
Hopefully this means Ubuntu will have good support for the X1 Elite…that’d be pretty sweet. Then all that sweet code can trickle down to the other distros.
Qualcomm? Not… Arm in general?
We’re talking about Qualcomm here, the company that made a deal with Microsoft to make Windows on ARM exclusive to Qualcomm SoC.
I actually thought Qualcomm was quite cool, but that’s an ass deal. On the other hand, it’s Microsoft and I kind of hate them at this point
I see you’re not working in any industry having to deal with Qualcomm.
Why is that? Are they so difficult as a company?
Why is that? Are they so difficult as a company?
It starts with them only doing initial talks about buying their hardware for a project with you for a 7-figure payment, and doesn’t improve from there.
No x86 is pretty much the only Platfrom I’m aware of where you can build a generic Kernel that will work with pretty much any hardware configuration out of the box.
There’s ARM generic that some distros support, but depend on your CPU supporting UEFI
Woah.
ARM sucks, lol.
I’m interested. As long as it has an unlockable bootloader and I can install my own OS
Its already been known Qualcomm x1 arm64 laptop chip will be able to run other operating systems its not a phone.
Ubuntu Touch V2, prepare for abandonment.
I’d be more excited about RISC-V collaboration, but this will do for now.
about goddam time
Would be very cool to see Ubuntu on these chips that are similar to Apple M series design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V68RE0M8zhk
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