Hi, as 25.10-arm64 is progressing with the snapdragon chips, I was wondering if we’ll see a studio build any time soon?
These snapdragon machines are prime for audio work and I’d personally love to see some arm64 tweaks as in x86_64 Ubuntu Studio.
I have a few apps working via the ubuntstudio-installer so far and things seem to be progressing 
Up to now none of the Snapdragon ports have fully working audio drivers (there are drivers you can enable in the kernel by hacking up the dtb files, but they have zero protection built in yet meaning that you can easily fry your speakers due to over-current)
Until this is fixed I doubt the usefullness of getting Ubuntu Studio working (indeed missing bits should be attacked earlier rather than later if something is not ready for arm64, but the Snapdragon specifically is not really ready for audio work on Linux yet)
Yep. Sadly, I have to agree with @ogra here. Until the audio drivers work, there’s not much point.
I’ve been pondering Raspberry Pi builds, but I’m not prioritizing it. My experiments with running lowlatency audio on a Raspberry Pi 5 has proven fairly successful, but I’ve had difficulty with the arm64 port of pipewire-jack doing the right thing.
That to say, I don’t think an outright arm64 .iso image of Ubuntu Studio can happen anytime soon, but a preinstalled Raspberry Pi image is within viewing distance. I can’t say when, but I’m pondering it.
Thanks both for the replies.
When you say audio drivers, are you talking about Qualcomm?
Surely most of us are using external class compliant interfaces - which would make those audio drivers less of a barrier to move forward. ??
Seems a shame to stop progress but I understand there are other priorities.
Pi has intrigued me recently. I’m wanting a realtime(ish) CV/Audio hub to be the brain of my Eurorack setup. I’m just a little hesitant to start getting into it and building something that won’t have the grunt I need in the end.