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Qualcomm Talks Up Their Linux Support For The Snapdragon X Elite

While much of the emphasis for Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite laptop SoC has been around Windows on Arm PCs, Qualcomm has also been working to have upstream Linux support for this high-end SoC and everything is coming together for said support.

With Linux 6.8~6.9 they have upstreamed much of the functionality while for Linux 6.10~6.11 they are working still on camera, video, memory DCVS, GPU support, suspend and resume, USB host, CPU frequency scaling, battery, external display support, and more. Further out they plan to work on more CPU/GPU performance optimizations, power optimizations, end-to-end hardware video decoding for the likes of Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, libcamera SoftISP camera support, making the firmware available in linux-firmware, and working on easy Linux distribution installer support. Those wishing to learn more about the Linux support status for the Snapdragon X Elite can do so via the Qualcomm Developer Blog.

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