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Qualcomm goes where Apple won't, readies official Linux support for Snapdragon X Elite
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Most of the functionality is present but many important bits are still being developed.

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Somehow, the kernel has been loaded and we have transferred control into it.

If the system is SystemReady then the EFI boot chain is fairly straightforward now. My current workstation just booted off the Debian usb installer like any other pc.

But we still need a hundred blobs and if the kernel needs to do something it has to make a call to the firmware.

This is what we get when you use Broadcom