<story><title>Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite</title><url>https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-linux-kernel-support-for-the-snapdragon-x-elite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sidkshatriya</author><text>I am excited about the prospect of Linux on another powerful aarch64 platform like Snapdragon Elite.&lt;p&gt;But, as far as I can tell from the diagram on the link shared, you will boot into EL1 and &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; EL2. This means that you cannot run a hardware accelerated VM on KVM (via something like qemu).&lt;p&gt;This makes a Snapdragon Linux laptop not as useful. BTW Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon enters on EL2 which allows qemu+KVM.&lt;p&gt;Entering on EL1 instead of EL2 seems to be be an outstanding issue with current Snapdragon based Linux laptops too. Can anybody correct me here if I&amp;#x27;m wrong ?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In short, our roadmap for the next six months includes work in these areas:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; End-to-end hardware video decoding, on Firefox and Chrome&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Implementation of the libcamera-SoftISP camera solution&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; GPU and CPU performance optimizations&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Power optimizations (Suspend&amp;#x2F;DCVS)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Making our firmware openly available (in Linux-firmware)&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Access to easy installers (Ubuntu and Debian)&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Making our firmware openly available (in Linux-firmware)&amp;quot; is a big one. How are firmware updates currently distributed ? People using Linux Laptops probably don&amp;#x27;t want to be signing into some Qualcomm website to get latest firmware updates. Also downloading firmware updates from some random link either would not   instill a lot of confidence either.&lt;p&gt;I feel these 2 big items need to be addressed before Linux on Snapdragon can be a truly attractive option.</text></comment>
<story><title>Upstreaming Linux kernel support for the Snapdragon X Elite</title><url>https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-linux-kernel-support-for-the-snapdragon-x-elite</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zmk5</author><text>Looks like by next LTS (for kernel 6.10 and 6.11) we&amp;#x27;ll have some good support for these chips. I wonder if any OEMs will make any Linux laptops for us to buy.</text></comment>