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[+] 36 points 11 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    As someone who owns several RISC-V devices the primary thing preventing usable (low end) RISC-V laptops is the GPUs. Most RISC-V silicon has Imagination GPUs, and the current state of the drivers there is "proprietary drivers stuck on an old LTS kernel."

    If someone makes an RVA23 compliant chip with open mainstreamable drivers and a BXS-4-64 GPU (or, better yet, somehow manages to license a GPU from Intel or AMD for it), that'll be a cash cow.

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Other than battery optimizations pretty much all of the issues don't exist on something like a Raspberry Pi which is RISC architecture (Broadcom chips). Sounds like Qualcomm just doesn't have their shit together.

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