TapTechNews May 14th - Qualcomm officially announced that its Snapdragon XElite will support the Linux system.
Currently, Qualcomm has started adding features to the Linux kernel, including NVMe over PCIe, sound machine drivers, PMC8380 PMIC, Pinctrl (TLMM), Phy (PCIe/eDP/USB), reference board support (CRD/QCP), and system cache.
In addition, Qualcomm plans to carry out more CPU/GPU performance optimizations, power optimizations, end-to-end hardware video decoding for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers, libcamera SoftISP camera support, providing firmware in linux-firmware, and providing easy Linux distribution installation program support.
Qualcomm stated in its developer blog that Snapdragon processors running Windows system also support Linux. Currently, Qualcomm has collaborated with Lenovo, Arm, and Linaro to develop an AArch64 laptop GitHub project, and embedded Linux support in several generations of Snapdragon Windows SoCs to ensure that users can boot Linux on laptops equipped with Qualcomm SoCs.
TapTechNews previously reported that HP's Snapdragon version of the Dragonfly series business laptop appeared on Geekbench, equipped with the Qualcomm Snapdragon XElite X1E-78-100 processor.
The test machine is HP Dragonfly 14-fe0xxx, with a motherboard model of 8CBE, equipped with 16GB of memory, running Windows 11 Enterprise Edition, and scored 2185 in single-core and 11312 in multi-core in Geekbench 6 tests.
Products that have been exposed to use Snapdragon X series processors include:
Microsoft Surface Pro 10
Microsoft Surface Laptop 6
Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Edge
Lenovo YOGA Slim 7 14/YOGA Air 14s 2024 Snapdragon version
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 Snapdragon version
Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5 Gen 10
HP Dragonfly series business laptops Snapdragon version/Dragonfly 14/OmniBook X 14/EliteBook Ultra G1q14X
Dell Inspiron 14 Plus 7441
Dell XPS 13 9345
Dell Latitude 7455
Acer Swift 14 SF14-11
ASUS The Fearless Vivobook S15 S5507