[viraptor]

If not now, likely soon. The chip itself is already supported and even its GPU is implemented since 5.15. Similar chips in other laptops don't fail entirely. https://forum.manjaro.org/t/samsung-book-s-with-8cx/52818/3

I give it another 2 months and I'd bet someone boots the basics at least. (Assuming the laptop is reasonably powerful and has enough users / interest) They mostly need to make sure the device tree is correct.

[rbanffy]

There's little upside on this. The chip is not faster than an Intel equivalent, and the laptop isn't cheaper either.

[githubris]

That's barely even an encouraging sign. For example, where are the folks running linux on the previous gen 7cx devices?

[viraptor]

> (Assuming the laptop is reasonably powerful and has enough users / interest)

7cx devices are not popular and I haven't seen anybody excited about them. M1 got serious reverse engineering work done because it's worth owning in the first place, but not every random Arm device will get that.