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Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series

625 points · 273 comments · aaronday

  1. wslh · · focus · HN ↗
    Funny how Qualcomm is juggling three OSes to sell these chips while Apple just stuck a phone chip in the Neo and called it a day. Controlling the chip, the OS, and the actual computer is a huge advantage. Apple is more than one study case on competitive analysis.
    1. bigyabai · · focus · HN ↗
      What advantage? I'm always a bit shocked to see people say this without qualifying it at all.

      On the contrary, Apple has to do a lot of greenfield work by refusing standards like UEFI, Vulkan and normal filesystems. They end up reinventing the wheel just to support the same featureset that Qualcomm, Nvidia, AMD and Intel all generally planned for.

      1. wmf · · focus · HN ↗
        Is it more work to support a completely proprietary boot path or three different "standard" boot paths?
        1. bigyabai · · focus · HN ↗
          Hint: you would know the answer if you are familiar with the Windows, Linux and OSX boot process.
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