Qualcomm Proposes Synx For The Linux Kernel With “Significant” Power + Performance Benefits
Qualcomm’s Synx proposal adds a vendor-neutral synchronization framework for Linux clients and non-Linux firmware or remote processors. It complements dma-fence and sync_file, aiming to coordinate SoCs across heterogeneous execution domains while reducing synchronization overhead and power use.
The proposal is still an RFC, so the interesting question is whether its cross-domain model can land without duplicating existing fence primitives or baking in Qualcomm’s hardware assumptions.