Qualcomm SnapDragon 800

[Renewable]

Do Arch Linux ARM have any plans to add the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 system on a chip to the list of ARMv7 platforms.

[kmihelich]

If we get our hands on a board that uses it, that is not a phone or tablet, it's always a possibility. If you have such a system, you just need to bring your own 3.0+ kernel; our armv7h repository is fully compatible with any armv7 processor.

[Renewable]

I have the New Nokia tablet from Windows RT 8.1 and was wondering if there was any possibility of booting to a Linux distro after circumventing any problems I might have with UEFI.

I ask the question as the CPU instruction set is ARMv7 and there was a long list of releases when I browsed the site.

I'm not a programmer but if I can get around the boot loader then accessing a remote server with the tablet seems like it could be lot of fun.

But it seems from your reply that you have nothing to do with tablets or phones.

[kmihelich]

No, we don't mess with phones or tablets, and certainly not the locked-down RT garbage. Return it for something Android you can root, you'll have more luck.