Are we (linux) ready for arm devices like snapdragon elite X? Asahi runs on mac os with arm chips and the software somehow runs better than macos itself?! Is the softwares packaged for arm linux different? Is there much softwares available for the arm platform like softwares available for the intel/amd chipsets?
After all are you optimistic about linux and arm?
ARM support is decent already, I just hope RISC-V catches on
Support by packages is generally there. What is lacking however, are drivers for video acceleration and many other soc- and often board-specific customisations required.
X86 in contrary offers one unified and queriable interface (ACPI, UEFI) that makes custom images unnecessary. ARM has ServerReady for that, however I’m not aware of any consumer chip that implements this.
Linux has been ready for ARM for a long time, Android is linux and have been running for a long time. Also see the Raspberry Pi and PiOS, based on Debian.
I run a Pi and there are boat loads of things ARM ready
Android is not linux ootb But pi is Thanks i didn’t thought about it ( ꈍᴗꈍ)
Android runs on the Linux kernel, so it’s Linux. You could consider it a distribution with almost none of the normal packages a standard Linux distribution would include, but it’s still Linux at the core.
I’m more excited for Linux on RISC-V, but yeah, Arm is neat.
There’s an unofficial project that aims to bring Arch Linux to RISC-V, it’s still a work in progress though: https://archriscv.felixc.at/
I want RISC-V chips to become common-place. Fuck ARM.