New update and progress report!
Added 2022-07-18 10:13:45 +0000 UTCHey folks! I've just posted a new progress report and Asahi Linux release over at our blog.
We've been hard at work over the past few months fixing bugs and adding new features. There's a lot that is still in the works, but this release brings us Bluetooth support as well as support for the M1 Studio (including M1 Ultra) and, hot off the presses, M2! I know that a lot of people have been concerned about whether the project will be playing eternal catch-up to new Apple machines, so hopefully this release answers that question. As we expected, new platforms have largely incremental changes, and can be supported with much less work than it takes to bring up a feature for the first time.
We also have a new team member, Asahi Lina. She's been spending many hours working on reverse engineering the GPU in order to write a production kernel driver, so we can finally bring GPU acceleration to all our users. She'll be writing a blog post covering that soon, so please look forward to that! I also had a chat with her, and we decided that I will be supporting her efforts going forward, with hardware for testing and other support.
That's all for now! In the coming months we're going to be focusing on upstreaming features into Linux, and I will also be taking a look at suspend/resume support as the next big thing, on my side.
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I raised my contribution too!
2022-09-19 08:05:31 +0000 UTCStarted using as my main workstation with mac mini. Is working very well for my python demands. I expect to contribute with testing and connecting to mainstream issues.
2022-07-29 12:47:50 +0000 UTCLet me see if I understood it correctly, by supporting you on Patreon I'm now also supporting Asahi Lina? I've doubled my monthly membership now :)
2022-07-19 21:16:36 +0000 UTCThanks for the update on easily digestible format marcan! Great to get this overview of all the progress made :D
2022-07-19 06:09:46 +0000 UTCPerhaps, but that's a tiny part of what would be needed for a full x86_64 > arm64 translation layer. Would be very nice to have, but I wouldn't hold your breath. I'd expect its far easier in a VM as that part can just be handed over to MacOS and the normal Rosetta 2 support.
Alex Atkin
2022-07-19 02:09:28 +0000 UTC
