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Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Powered ASUS Vivobook S15 Laptop Seeing Linux Patches


For those interested in laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC, it's looking like the ASUS Vivobook S15 model could be one of the first devices with decent Linux support

For those interested in laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC, it's looking like the ASUS Vivobook S15 model could be one of the first devices with decent Linux support. There are patches undergoing review for upstreaming the ASUS Vivobook S 15 DeviceTree support so that much of the basic functionality is working under Linux but various features are known to be broken. Known to be working with the yet-to-be-merged Vivobook S15 DT is CPU frequency scaling, NVMe storage but currently at PCIe Gen4x2 speeds rather than Gen4x4, keyboard and touchpad, the WCN7850 WiFi, two USB Type-C ports, the internal eDP display, and other basic functionality.

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