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Retroid Pocket 5 will have linux support (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by mr_MADAFAKA@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I mean... is this a big deal? Every retro ARM handheld out there runs some version of Linux or Android. I gues Retroid was an Android-focused brand, hence the name, but if you wanted to run Batocera on a handheld there is no shortage of options.

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Snapdragon hasn't had mainline kernel support and has always been a pain to set up, enough so that nobody does it. This is using a snapdragon processor. Those are also fairly powerful.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't Snapdragon support added recently? I feel like I saw a note on that having happened when I was looking up what SOC this thing was packing, but I could be wrong.

[–] exu@feditown.com 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, for the new Qualcomm chips they're using in the Windows for ARM devices. Not sure if they still need device trees to work properly or if they have an UEFI like.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this in part due to everyone wanting to put Linux on those new "copilot pcs"?

I'd love to have a linux'd one of those that battery life from what I've heard is insane

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Qualcomm had an exclusivity deal with Microsoft which has expired. I think that's what is causing them to put relevant code in mainline.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Ahh so it's qualcomm themselves doing this? that's awesome actually I thought it was just more people were interested in reverse engineering them now to get linux going on the new wave of laptops

Shame gaming on arm kinda sucks at the moment as a whole though

[–] dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Bit of both. Actually I think ARM the ISA overall is in good (even great!) shape, but it's the GPU and other SoC functions which cause the most headaches.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If this can dual-boot, that could be really handy.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

The published spec sheet says it does dual book with Android 13.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

the most recent Android is Linux v5 I think, so I'm kind of with you that the gain isn't huge when compared to modern mobile devices.

Still, for older ARM sets, the max Android they used had only Linux v3, so it's impressive that they mainlined enough of the hardware to be usable in today's market.

[–] hopefull_cottonball@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huh... for some reason I thought it was a combination of Retro & Metroid.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

Hah. It may be, I don't know. Maybe both?