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Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11
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OK, correction accepted. I probably did conflate them with Broadcom. Someone should let those ubuntu folks know though.. ;)
Oh it's ok. Broadcom is a very bad company in terms of open-source and Linux support. Their most known products are WiFi modules for laptops. Qualcomm on the other hand is probably one of the most open-source friendly commercial companies and it's known for very popular mobile processors such as the Snapdragon series.
I wouldn't call Qualcomm great for foss. It just better than absolutely terrible. Also Broadcom is a terrible company all around. They buy others and then wring them dry.
If the X Elite mainline kernel support pans out, Qualcomm may become top tier in terms of support. It would certainly make them the most important Linux ARM chip. We will see.
You mean like what they're doing to VMware and canning perpetual licenses the second they took over? I guess in some ways they are actually great for FOSS, because I've never seen more interest by Enterprise in Proxmox before they made that decision.