Josephine Pfeiffer, an Arch Linux package maintainer, wrote on josie.lol about getting Arch Linux ARM running on an ASUS ProArt P16 H7607BA-SE033W, the 128 GB configuration with 6,144 CUDA cores. The laptop ships with Windows-only official support.

NVIDIA’s kernel work for Ubuntu gave her a starting point. On top of that she fixed the ACPI override allocation and framebuffer mapping needed for a console, derived the ACPI overrides from the laptop’s own tables, patched hid-asus for the keyboard, and wrote a machine driver for audio. The result is a bootable USB plus an extended Archinstall 4.5 that installs the hardware support.

In native ARM64 7-Zip, the Linux setup ran about 5% ahead of published Windows results on compression at 20 threads. The bigger difference is memory: Linux reports 116.0 GiB as both system RAM and CUDA’s total from one physical pool, with no reservation slider and no reboot between workloads.…