heads up the GPU drivers are proprietary as of posting:
The SpacemiT K1 also doesn’t have any upstream open-source graphics driver as another disappointing aspect.
Bummer
Are there any companies making discrete laptop graphics that don’t have proprietary drivers? I don’t think I’ve ever seen an AMD powered laptop unless it used an APU. I shudder to think of what proprietary Linux drivers from a company less resourced than Nvidia are like.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an AMD powered laptop unless it used an APU.
There’s at least 4 on AMD’s website, so they do exist but they don’t seem very common.
Also Intel has laptop chips, but I’m not sure if it’s actually discrete or just another die on the CPU.
Oh snap!
Doesn’t look like it’s ready for prime time. Probably only an option for RISC-V developers.
Yeah I think RISC-V is probably still about 10 years away from being a sensible choice for a laptop. There’s a load of platform stuff around things like ACPI and Device Tree that’s still being decided. Also some ISA extensions that are standard on x86/ARM are either unratified or very recently ratified (e.g. Vector).
For microcontrollers it’s ready now, and for server applications it’s probably doable now and will be solid in a few years. Laptops & phones will be last though.
Fuck yeah, I’m really hyped about getting some solid ARM support. I want that battery life.
This their chance to use coreboot, but knowing canonical, they probably won’t.
