Discussion Qualcomm Snapdragon Thread

[Raqia]

They perhaps naively trusted Qualcomm when they said they would support Linux. One can only hope the situation will be better for the next generation of SD.

Give me a break. Valve did it just fine even without vendor drivers:

Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

 

[LightningDust]

Give me a break. Valve did it just fine even without vendor drivers:

Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

Valve did Linux without vendor drivers for the GPU. Now do the ISP, the codec blocks, power management, wifi/modem, device enumeration, etc, etc

I also suspect, by the way, that Valve is using Halium, and therefore cribbing heavily from what is available for phones. This is not common or desired practice for desktop Linux, as it inherits a bunch of dependencies on out-of-tree, out-of-distro-repos Android bits.

 

[NTMBK]

Most games aren't particularly SIMD-heavy.

Eh, it creeps in a few places. https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/...-in-unreal-engine-4-a-peek-behind-the-curtain

General purpose game code won't be terribly SIMD friendly, but core systems like animation runtime, physics engine etc will often be optimised for vector instructions.

 

[hemedans]

Give me a break. Valve did it just fine even without vendor drivers:

Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

As far as I understand 8 gen 3 was last soc supported by Turnip, all adreno 8xx soc don't have Turnip support.