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What's up with still no Linux on snapdragon laptops? Is qualcomm not supporting it?
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Aren't they arm-based? What's the hurdle?
If the devs don't have access to the hardware then it's impossible to make drivers for a specific laptop
If it's arm-based is the CPU so alien as to not being usable without a very generic kernel?
As for the hardware, is it so unique there are no drivers already?
ARM systems don't have the whole ACPI thing to describe what hardware is where. Linux has to bodge together its view of the system with a devicetree instead. If you don't know what device IP blocks are integrated into the SOC (and locked behind an NDA), good luck blindly guessing. You don't even get EFI booting, you get shit like "the rpi gpu runs its own proprietary bootloader lol".