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Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series

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cromka · 1790207353 · focus · HN ↗
Qualcomm hired some developers back from Linaria and they have been providing support for a bunch of X2 laptops these past two, three months directly via Linux ARM MSM mailing list. I'm surprised it took them this long to announce this publicly.
Hopefully this means Framework releases an X2 mainboard as it would be a match made in heaven.
1. dansquizsoft · 1790211238 · focus · HN ↗
  > Hopefully this means Framework releases an X2 mainboard as it would be a match made in heaven.
  My friend showed me his brand new Framework the other day, but I couldn't hear his spiel about its features over the noise of its fan!
  1. cromka · 1790236949 · focus · HN ↗
    Was that Framework 13 Pro? I thought these were supposed to have Panther and be much more efficient and quiet?
2. modeless · 1790220558 · focus · HN ↗
  Ooh, an X2 Elite Extreme Framework laptop with Linux supported would be very tempting.
3. cromka · 1790237064 · focus · HN ↗
  *Linaro, sorry for the typo
4. wyldfire · 1790250682 · focus · HN ↗
  Yeah - especially if it could drop into existing framework laptop shells.
  1. cromka · 1790259309 · focus · HN ↗
    That's the dream. But I am quite sure Framework is looking into it, if not only because Windows on ARM is gaining traction, which means developers need an ARM machine to develop. I can imagine some would want two identical machines, one with X86_64, one with aarch64.

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