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Qualcomm Linux 2.0

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by LorenDB

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And here I was hoping they'd decided to support Linux on the Snapdragon X2 chips.

by bfrog

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Ah yes, the qualcomm way. Rather than upstreaming things so it just works make a Qualcomm Linux, perhaps with NDA and laywer speak to sign off on to get access to anything at all, all to use their mediocre hardware.
Qualcomm you suck, upstream your drivers, make it open. Stop faffing about with closed proprietary junk. Somehow Intel, Tenstorrent, and AMD understand this but you don't. You aren't NVIDIA! Even if you were NVIDIA know that people absolutely despise that model.

by nullpoint420

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Just upstream your drivers! Then you don't need Qualcomm Linux.... you just have Linux.

by coredog64

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Recently bought an SBC with a QCS6490 (https://radxa.com/products/dragon/q6a/). Curious to see if the vendor winds up using this as a base.

by olaf

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by readme

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by aa-jv

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Qualcomm are forever blacklisted in my environment, because of their fuckery with backdoors for the spook agencies which fund their research.
I will definitely not be touching their Linux variant for that reason. I simply don't trust the company, one bit. They are the American Huawei.

by trentor

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Qualcomm is not a good software steward. Every time I used something they had their hand in, it was abandoned rather sooner than later.
Eudora: bought, milked, killed. BREW: rotted. AllJoyn: dead. Toq/Mirasol: gone in two years. CodeAurora: shut down. And the $899 Snapdragon Dev Kit: shipped months late, then cancelled with support "paused indefinitely" while units were still in transit. Even Adreno drivers barely get updates after launch.
The silicon is great. But software at Qualcomm is a launch checkbox, not a commitment. At this point, "powered by Qualcomm" on a dev platform is a signal to stay away.