Will fedora 40 run on ASUS vivobook S15 with snapdragon X-elite processor on arm-architecture

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Hi all,
The website Get Fedora provides a bootable iso for fedora 40 with x86_64 aarch64 architecture.
Does this mean that fedora will run on any system with arm-architecture, like ASUS vivobook S15 with snapdragon X-elite processor?
Or is this still experimental or rawhide?

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Support for snapdragon-x laptops is still landing upstream, so no,
f40/f41 will not support it out of the box. ;(

I have a lenovo slim 7x (another snapdragon x laptop).

It needs:

  • a cutom kernel with some non upstreamed patches ( I have a copr at:
    kevin/x1e80100kernel Copr
  • modifying grub to pass ‘devicetree=/copy-of-dtb-file-for-that-device’
  • Reinstalling the retired in fedora pd-mapper package and it’s deps
    (the in-kernel power managment isn’t working yet)

With that it most things work, except not sound (close) or webcam (far
away from working).

So, you can get things working, but if you don’t want to tinker with it,
I would hold off until f42 next year…

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sad :frowning:

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So, the time has come, the Fedora 42 has already been released, but without Snapdragon XElite support. Looks like we should wait for Fedora 43. May be, Fedora 43 would have Snapdragon X Elite support.

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Or later. No one has solved the ‘load the approprate devicetree’ issue
sadly.

So, things are improving, but no idea when a fully supported solution
will come at this point.

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Ubuntu has already solved) The main issue is - not working sound and camera.

Look at the topic - Snapdragon X Elite Fedora 42 System Bring-Up (and looking for collaborators or SIGs)! - #4 by gurnben

There you can find some ideas, and some attempts to make bootable ISO.