Never talked about the important thing. Are the kernel modules fully open source and is the SoC fully documented publicly. If those two aspects are not a yes, this entire affair is an attempt to steal hardware ownership just like phones.
Yes, they submitted initial patchset to Linux kernel back in October (1 day after snapdragon X announcement). On Qualcomm's website they say that full support for the chip will be merged into Linux kernel within six months.
I like the arm world because you don't have only two players which are boring and are not good at all if you think of a world wide technological progress.
It's a rather poor world actually.
I'm trying a cheap arm Chromebook now and I can say it could replace a standard pc/mac already, in terms of performances.
Mediatek can already challenge apple and snapdragon so we already have 3 players but I think Samsung, and unisoc will enter the arena. Rockchip already did it with chromebooks and they look enough too.
And thinking about prices, considering the t820 that is about 150€ with the Nubia neo (or neo2), you could have chromebooks for maybe 200€, if you add 12" screen and stylus support.
Wow, Linaro. that's a name I haven't heard in a while. They were the ones to optimize Android builds during the IceCreamSandwich days and just last day I was wondering if there were any third party optimization project still out there. All the best to them.
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j4k3@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 2y
Never talked about the important thing. Are the kernel modules fully open source and is the SoC fully documented publicly. If those two aspects are not a yes, this entire affair is an attempt to steal hardware ownership just like phones.
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 2y
Yeah, exactly. At that point better get an m1; at least the work has already been done on them.
thequantumcog@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Yes, they submitted initial patchset to Linux kernel back in October (1 day after snapdragon X announcement). On Qualcomm's website they say that full support for the chip will be merged into Linux kernel within six months.
j4k3@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 2y
So no, the marketing shysters are simply trying to silence the self aware minority. /s
Suoko@feddit.it · 2 pts · 2y
I like the arm world because you don't have only two players which are boring and are not good at all if you think of a world wide technological progress. It's a rather poor world actually.
I'm trying a cheap arm Chromebook now and I can say it could replace a standard pc/mac already, in terms of performances. Mediatek can already challenge apple and snapdragon so we already have 3 players but I think Samsung, and unisoc will enter the arena. Rockchip already did it with chromebooks and they look enough too.
Suoko@feddit.it · 0 pts · 2y
And thinking about prices, considering the t820 that is about 150€ with the Nubia neo (or neo2), you could have chromebooks for maybe 200€, if you add 12" screen and stylus support.
loki@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y
Wow, Linaro. that's a name I haven't heard in a while. They were the ones to optimize Android builds during the IceCreamSandwich days and just last day I was wondering if there were any third party optimization project still out there. All the best to them.
https://libreddit.kavin.rocks/r/Android/comments/usuym/linaro_build_optimizations_that_can_make_ics_30/
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