Wow, Linaro. that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while. They were the ones to optimize Android builds during the IceCreamSandwich days and just last day I was wondering if there were any third party optimization project still out there. All the best to them.
Never talked about the important thing. Are the kernel modules fully open source and is the SoC fully documented publicly. If those two aspects are not a yes, this entire affair is an attempt to steal hardware ownership just like phones.
Yes, they submitted initial patchset to Linux kernel back in October (1 day after snapdragon X announcement). On Qualcomm’s website they say that full support for the chip will be merged into Linux kernel within six months.
I like the arm world because you don’t have only two players which are boring and are not good at all if you think of a world wide technological progress. It’s a rather poor world actually.
I’m trying a cheap arm Chromebook now and I can say it could replace a standard pc/mac already, in terms of performances. Mediatek can already challenge apple and snapdragon so we already have 3 players but I think Samsung, and unisoc will enter the arena. Rockchip already did it with chromebooks and they look enough too.
And thinking about prices, considering the t820 that is about 150€ with the Nubia neo (or neo2), you could have chromebooks for maybe 200€, if you add 12" screen and stylus support.
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