Snapdragon 8 Elite arrives with Linux support, potentially unlocking PC gaming on phones and tablets | TechSpot
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Qualcomm engineering director Trilok Soni recently confirmed that the company’s Linux team published Linux kernel updates for the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor. Qualcomm unveiled the SoC earlier this month, targeting a new generation of flagship phones and tablets supporting Android and Linux.

  • @[email protected]
    2•2 months ago

    Arm Linux software is relatively sparse, so users will likely want to emulate x86 and Windows applications

    What? That doesn’t sound right at all. Many things can be recompiled to target a new architecture, and lots of stuff is written in an interpreted language with an interpreter for ARM.

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    • @c10l
      1•2 months ago

      lol yeah…. Debian has has an arm64 variant since version 8:

      98% of Debian is currently built: over 12200 source (arch-specific) packages. https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Port

      It is true that for gaming we’re back into emulating x64 and translating Windows APIs via WINE and maybe Proton but almost all Linux software will work natively.