Diving into Qualcomm's Upcoming Adreno X2 GPU with Eric Demers

(chipsandcheese.com)

25 points | by rbanffy 5 days ago

8 comments

bfrog 12 hours ago
If only Qualcomm knew how to do software more than lawyer.
jonkoops 13 hours ago
Surely it will work properly on Linux with upstreamed drivers, right? Right?
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- aseipp 4 hours ago
  Mesa already has initial support for Adreno 8xx[1] and the DRM side was already merged into the kernel back in November.[2]
  [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/38... [2] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/01ff3bf272156615d6c...
david-gpu 13 hours ago
Shortly after this interview, Eric announced that he is leaving Qualcomm.
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- daemonologist 10 hours ago
  Eric's post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-demers-7bb3b32_next-week...
petermcneeley 4 hours ago
I see the mention of Wave64. It would be nice if we could all standardize on 32. The hw backend can do what it wishes (dual/quad issue etc).
ra 14 hours ago
If we had a vibrant open source TPU interface, inference / training stack... what would be left of Nvidia?
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- onion2k 14 hours ago
  We have that for GPUs and nVidia were doing pretty well before AI hardware started being popular.
speed_spread 11 hours ago
This guy sure knows his Poutine. Unfortunately nothing described in the article is relevant without proper Linux support which is still unlikely despite Qualcomm's repeated pledges.
andrewstuart 15 hours ago
What are their drivers like?
Fully open source? Unlikely methinks.
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- jordand 14 hours ago
  Last I read was Mesa support for those Adreno GPUs is still work-in-process. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20250930-kaana-gpu-support...
- 999900000999 14 hours ago
  Would be nice if Qualcomm worked with at least 1 OEM to get at least one Linux distro supported at launch.
  Hypothetically if they did I'd pre order one.
dingi 12 hours ago
What's the point? They are e-waste as soon as they leave the factory.