Qualcomm recently announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Elite Extreme, which appear to be putting up some respectable CPU and GPU benchmarks, but there hasn't been much word on Linux compatibility until now. A recent Linux driver patch sees the start of adding open source driver support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 series GPUs in the X2 Elite SoC to the open-source Qualcomm MSM Direct Rendering Management driver. The patch submission specifically calls out changes to the driver that were necessary because of the new slice-based architecture, as well as changes that allow for higher current draw and necessary thermal mitigations.

The development team also mentioned that Mesa and Vulkan support for the Adreno 840 and other 800 series Arm GPUs is currently work-in-progress and "will be posted in the near future". For reference, when it comes to the previous Snapdragon X Elite launch, there were significant driver updates as recently as July 2025, so even if the Qualcomm team is working on Linux driver support, it might be a while before Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme laptops are actually at feature-parity with x86 systems on Linux.
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