Hans de Goede

After the initial work to make Fedora live iso media boot OOTB on Snapdragon X1 laptops in Fedora 44, I've continued working on improving the Fedora experience on these laptops for Fedora 45. For Fedora 44 a long list of workarounds was necessary, see the Snapdragon laptop install instructions on the wiki.

For Fedora 45 various improvements have been made in the mainline kernel and I've been working on improvements at the initramfs generator / distro level. Together these result in a much smoother experience, see the install instructions for Fedora 45 on the wiki. A few workarounds are unfortunately still necessary for Fedora 45. For Fedora 46 I hope that the Fedora aarch64 live iso media will just work on X1 laptops.

Note that this blog post is about Snapdragon X1 (Elite,Plus) laptops. Support for Snapdragon X2 laptops at the same level as the current X1 laptop support is quickly coming together in the mainline kernel. But the 7.2 kernel used for the Fedora 45 beta and release isos is still missing some bits and Devicetrees, so Fedora 45 will not work OOTB on Snapdragon X2 laptops.