r/deepin • u/smallworldgee • 24d ago
Need Help With Installation (X Elite)
As title states, I need help getting this to boot on my Snapdragon X-Elite Laptop. I have a Honor Magic Artbook 14 with the Snapdragon X Elite - X1E80100. I know there are arm images for Deepin however, it still refuses to boot. The secure boot was turned off and everything. I know these arm chips can be a pain when it comes to getting a different OS booted, but I'm also tired of Windows 11 lol. I did find a github with the drivers and I tried to compile into the distro, but, still no luck. I found the original drivers for this laptop as well through honors chinese support page. Not sure if anyone has any ideas. I tried this distro out in virtual box and loved it. Thank you in advance!
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u/pascal0007 20d ago
UEFI Challenges
ARM64 was initially used mainly in embedded devices, so U-Boot was more common. However, U-Boot presented several issues when booting deepin 23, such as requiring different device tree binary files (DTBs) for different devices. This posed challenges for mainstreaming deepin 23. As a result, we currently only support UEFI-enabled devices like Phytium D2000/D3000, Kunpeng 920, and new products from Zhaoxin Technology. For other ARM64 devices, we can only offer limited support, as adapting different development boards requires significant manpower and resources. However, we welcome more ARM64 development boards and device manufacturers to collaborate with us, and we will do our best to adapt to them.
from: https://www.deepin.org/en/deepin-multi-architecture-compatibility/
This is for deepin23 but maybe there was not much progres...
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u/abskvrm 24d ago
Your right about the distro being cool and pretty but I have no experience with ARM version. I wish I could help.