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Qualcomm did this in 2024. They pushed some patches to LKML, and issued a press release to brag about it. (https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...)

Yet 2 days ago, Tuxedo Computers announced they were abandoning Qualcomm due to crap support. (https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/26/tuxedo_axes_arm_lapto...).

  In particular, the long battery runtimes – usually one of the strong arguments for ARM devices – were not achieved under Linux. 
  A viable approach for BIOS updates under Linux is also missing at this stage, as is fan control.
  Virtualization with KVM is not foreseeable on our model, nor are the high USB4 transfer rates.
  Video hardware decoding is technically possible, but most applications lack the necessary support.
There is nothing in this press release to suggest they've changed.
parent 0xbadcafebee 11 months ago

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