FAQ: Ubuntu 25.04/25.10 on Snapdragon X Elite

[vladimir_alekseev]

Ubuntu 24.10 Concept Snapdragon X Elite

Yes, if you nuke your system, you would need to re-extract the firmware. Depending on OEM, you may be able to download these binaries directly from device support page instead of extracting from live windows partition. You can do that for Asus (called BSP package), Dell. Afaik Lenovo didn’t publish any for Yoga, so that won’t work. You can then extract and flatten the .exe via 7z e filename.exe, fool qcom-firmware-extract which expects Windows/System32/DriverStore/FileRepository path by creating…