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Re:Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 by ff2400t on Thursday November 27, 2025 @12:45PM (#46071532)
The frame uses X Elite, their SoC designed or Laptops. These drivers are for mobile Line. Yeah the naming can be quite confusing.
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Re:Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 by TiredOfLife on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:08PM (#46071733)
the frame is using a standard mobile snapdragon 8 gen 3 with ARM designed cortex cores.
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Re:Same-day upstream Linux support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 by cubefox on Thursday November 27, 2025 @01:31PM (#46071947)
The 8 Gen 3 also still uses the previous tile-based A7x GPU architecture, while newer chips use the "A8x family of GPUs based on the new Slice architecture".
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