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Qualcomm goes where Apple won't, readies official Linux support for Snapdragon X Elite | Tom's Hardware (www.tomshardware.com)

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Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I'm hoping RISC-V will start showing up in consumer products soon. Hopefully the first ones will be Linux laptops. Windows doesn't have RISC-V support yet, does it? This might be the opportunity for Linux to become the default for RISC-V.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sad android already dropped RISC-V support

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Woah. Got a source for that?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/google-removes-risc-v-support-from-android/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the link.

a potential reason might be the very fragmentary nature of the RISC-V ISA, which makes a standard RISC-V kernel very complicated if you want to support more than a (barebones) profile. This is also supported by a RISC-V mailing list thread, where ‘expensive maintenance’ is mentioned for why Google doesn’t want to support RISC-V.

That might change. It wouldn't be surprising if Google jumped back onto the train once RISC-V became popular again. But that might take a while.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/riscv_support_android_pulled/?td=rt-3a

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

wouldn't risk-v be worse in terms of standardisation? At least for advanced functionality

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Pine64 has a few Risc-V boards