Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support

With patches pending for creating an Acer Aspire 1 embedded controller driver, this Qualcomm Snapdragon powered ARM laptop has "almost full support" with the upstream Linux kernel...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Acer-Aspire-1-EC-Linux-Complete

[bezirg]

Michael are you sure it is qualcomm 7c gen 1 and not 7c gen 2? The acer website says:

• Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 7c Gen 2 Octa-core 2,55 GHz

Not that it matters much though. The gen 2 seems to be just higher-clocked gen 1

[bezirg]

Oh apparently there were both gen1 and gen2 in the same chassis as different configuration, so disregard my comment

[juxuanu]

"almost"? What is it missing?

[uid313]

I would love to see Dell or HP make a RISC-V or ARM laptop.

Imagine a Dell XPS 13 with RISC-V or ARM CPU, that would be so cool!

[stormcrow]

I would love to see Dell or HP make a RISC-V or ARM laptop.

Imagine a Dell XPS 13 with RISC-V or ARM CPU, that would be so cool!

The screaming fanboism is strong in this one...

If it's from Qualcomm I want nothing to do with it. Ever.

[uid313]

The screaming fanboism is strong in this one...

If it's from Qualcomm I want nothing to do with it. Ever.

I don't know how open or closed Qualcomm is, but most of all, I would like Intel or AMD to make a RISC-V CPU, and if I can't that, then I would like to see Intel or AMD make a ARM CPU.

[Duff~]

250 usd for a 4GB laptop? wow

[fitzie]

The screaming fanboism is strong in this one...

If it's from Qualcomm I want nothing to do with it. Ever.

fanboi of what? dell xps? it's a pretty good design. seems logical to want to free it from intel's heater chips.

[You-]

I don't know how open or closed Qualcomm is...

it is pretty open. Rob Clarke started off the Adreno driver but at some point Qualcomm became involved. Qualcomm may have some shitty hardware licensing practices, but they seem to be pretty good on the GPU driver side and not the worse on the SoC upstreaming side.

It would be interesting if someone produces SBC's of Qualcomms highest tiers.