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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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Post by kmeisthax »

ActorNightly wrote: post #10

Im glad she stepped away from Asahi linux. Its absolutely great from a techincal perspective and the progress that team has made, but talented people like her shouldn't be trying to reverse engineer software/hardware from shitty anti-consumer company that can make the entire project work in a heartbeat by publishing documentation, in lieu of building better stuff from the ground up.

Even with proper documentation, there still would have been loads of work to get M1/M2 GPUs working on Asahi Linux. Writing GPU drivers worth a damn is about as difficult as targeting a compiler to a new CPU architecture. It would not be "in a heartbeat".

Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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Post by internetter »

Keyframe wrote: post #27
Tiberium wrote: post #18

Sorry to hijack, but since the topic is related: is the development of Asahi Linux still actively ongoing, or has slowed down a lot? The progress for M1 and M2 was steady and now almost everything is done, but the M3+ work still seems to not have started. And with major contributors leaving the project I'm kind of worried for the future of Asahi (on newer Apple hardware).

I'd pay easily let's say $100-200 a year to have linux running on modern apple laptops with full features. I'm sure I'm not alone. Their hardware, "our" OS would be perfect. Well, except notch and lack of OLED - but, reportedly that's in the works too.

https://opencollective.com/asahilinux

the great thing is, you can!

Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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Post by knotaknuther »

dang wrote: post #15
mrheosuper wrote: post #3

>For years I juggled my courses with my part-time job and my hobby driver Man I wish i had half of the energy of this author.

> I wish i had half of the energy of this guy Trolling will get you banned here, so please don't.

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Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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Post by monocasa »

kccqzy wrote: post #7
syntaxing wrote: post #2

What an end to an era. It's crazy to think she started this journey at 18 and now finished 5 years later. Not many people believed they would be able to make the GPU work in Asahi linux. Kinda curious what her "Onto the next challenge!" link means. Is she working for Intel Xe-HPG next?

Yes I think so. Her resume says she started working for Intel on open source graphics driver this month.

Good luck to her. That's one of the pieces of Intel I think will survive its slow motion implosion.

Re: Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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Post by overfeed »

ronsor wrote: post #14
ActorNightly wrote: post #10

Im glad she stepped away from Asahi linux. Its absolutely great from a techincal perspective and the progress that team has made, but talented people like her shouldn't be trying to reverse engineer software/hardware from shitty anti-consumer company that can make the entire project work in a heartbeat by publishing documentation, in lieu of building better stuff from the ground up.

> in lieu of building better stuff from the ground up To be fair, even if you have the best CPU and GPU designers, it's not as if you can call up TSMC and have them do a run of your shiny new processor on their latest (or even older) process. You can't fab them at home either.

Fortunately for her, Intel - her new employer has "fabs at home". Though on older nodes, TBF.
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