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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by dezgeg on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:27AM (#40666930)
Mainline kernel tends to have only basic support (if at all) for many SoCs that actually get used in phones, especially full power management support has been lacking.
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by izacus on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:52AM (#40667375)
Right, but it doesn't seem SoC vendors are budging on that - maybe it's slowly time for Linux to figure out a better approach?
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by dvdkon on Thursday June 13, 2024 @05:50AM (#40667691)
Most PC and server hardware has FLOSS drivers (with proprietary firmware), even Qualcomm is upstreaming support for the new Snapdragon Elite (maybe it's made by a different team?).

I think phone SoCs are the odd ones out, which sadly doesn't mean they'll improve any time soon. Supporting an ABI for binary drivers in Linux might help phones, but it would give everyone else a chance to regress in their support, so I understand Linux kernel developers' position.

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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by bayindirh on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:58AM (#40667418)
Stopping planned obsolescence via closed drivers is a start, no?
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Re:Building a faster, smarter, Chromebook experience with th... by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday June 13, 2024 @12:06PM (#40671377)
Linux isn't budging - maybe it's time for SoC vendors to figure out a better approach?
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