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Support for Snapdragon 8cx #76

Open thesleort opened 2 years ago

thesleort commented 2 years ago

I hope you can forgive me for this being more of a question than an actual issue.

I have noticed that the laptops shown in the README.md are using SOCs that aren't state-of-the-art (although not by any means old), but are of a similar line as the Snapdragon 8cx. Does anyone know if there is a possibility that it will boot with the current state of things? I have noticed a couple of Snapdragon laptops recently using that particular chipset, 8cx. Assuming an SOC like that wont boot, where and how do I start to get something like that working (debugging, general information about the boot process, etc.). I have many years been working with Linux, C/C++, micro controllers etc. and have a background in computer science, but the boot process is still like a black box for me and I have a hard time figuring out where to start. ARM to me seems a lot more fragmented than x86 regarding the boot process and device tree, so I never really encountered any of it on x86. I really want to see this effort succeed (and help if I can), as I otherwise fear installing Linux on computers/laptops in the future could become harder if more devices use ARM platforms.

rhenwood-arm commented 2 years ago

hi @thesleort -- I have visited it myself recently, but IRC has been a valuable place to get help in the past: https://github.com/aarch64-laptops/build#irc

thesleort commented 2 years ago

Thank you, I might take a look there then!

TheOneWithTheBraid commented 2 years ago

Isn't the Snapdragon 8cx available in the Lenovo Flex 5G? Or did I misunderstand something here? https://static.linaro.org/connect/lvc21/presentations/lvc21-321.pdf