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If not now, likely soon. The chip itself is already supported and even its GPU is implemented since 5.15. Similar chips in other laptops don't fail entirely. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/samsung-book-s-with-8cx/52818/3

I give it another 2 months and I'd bet someone boots the basics at least. (Assuming the laptop is reasonably powerful and has enough users / interest) They mostly need to make sure the device tree is correct.



There's little upside on this. The chip is not faster than an Intel equivalent, and the laptop isn't cheaper either.


That's barely even an encouraging sign. For example, where are the folks running linux on the previous gen 7cx devices?


> (Assuming the laptop is reasonably powerful and has enough users / interest)

7cx devices are not popular and I haven't seen anybody excited about them. M1 got serious reverse engineering work done because it's worth owning in the first place, but not every random Arm device will get that.




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