Re: experience of 14-STABLE on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c laptop?

It's slowly being worked on. phk@ has a bunch of work to get FreeBSD
working enough using the acpi tree, but the ACPI tree is not anywhere near
"complete".

Running it using a FDT, which is what linux does, requires a lot of drivers
to be written, and that's what I'm slowly figuring out.



-adrian


On Mon, 12 May 2025 at 02:27, Anton Shterenlikht <[email protected]> wrote:

> Anybody has good/bad experience of running 14-STABLE
> on laptops with Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c?
>
> There is a status page for Snapdragon Elite X1E-78-100 "Oryon":
>  https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Thinkpad_T14s_G6_Snapdragon_ARM64_CPU
> but it's a much more expensive model.
>
> I'm mostly interested in learning armv8 asm.
> Network drivers are important too,
> but graphics is of least concern.
>
> There are lots of Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c used laptops on sale.
> I'm considering buying one, but would like to hear
> from somebody who's been there before.
>
> Or if somebody has a better suggestion for an armv8 laptop,
> that would be helpful too.
>
> Thank you
>
> Anton
>
>