This is a great use case of LLM.
Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
> concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development This is false. I am a former Apple engineer. I did not conceal it (it's the top item of my resume and my LinkedIn and I made my PR from my public Github with my name attached, as opposed to a pseudonym which is expressly allowed by Asahi policy). I also had no exposure, at all, to any internal info…
Everything that you say can be true, and yet Asahi project may want to avoid needing to prove what you say in a courtroom.
"We don't want to take on the risk of working with a former Apple employee, who could potentially leak trade secrets and expose us to unwanted liability" is a very different statement than asserting that they were banned for deception. The post you're replying to is responding to accusations against their character and behaviour. Clearing those up is an entirely different matter than saying anything about whether former employees should be allowed to contribute to the project.
Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#133https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1whecn1/comment... > The author was banned from Asahi Linux for hiding his extensive use of LLMs from us in another attempted contribution, and (more importantly) for concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development. Make of this what you will.
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Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#134It's extremely impressive that they were able to make a working driver so quickly. I think this is one of the best use cases for LLMs. You don't need someone to spend years reverse engineering undocumented hardware anymore. It will interesting to see how good the driver the LLMs came up with is, and whether it can be upstreamed into the Linux kernel.
I can’t help wondering if the whole process will be automated being an LLM.
Apple releases the M15, and using everything leaned while building drivers for the M4 - M14, the LLM just does the whole job and we have the drivers a day later.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
The friend I am referring to I met at Stanford around April of 2026 in a dorm event. We've spoken in person exactly once (I use "friend" loosely to describe anyone I've spoken to who I'm not on bad terms with) and at no point did we discuss anything detailed about Apple Silicon. For further context, I left Apple in June of 2025.
Isn't that chat log from 2024?
If you read the page it says 2026-06-04.
Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
So what if person a and person b are unrelated and person b found it on their own? There are countries in the global south that never had an industrial revolution and don't speak English and never had factories for export nor made anything in a factory industrially that isn't building material and food and maybe fuel for local consumption so they've never had an IP infringement case
> what if person a and person b are unrelated and person b found it on their own That's what's referred to as a "clean room implementation" further up the thread. However, this specific thread is about the scenario where an employee has inside knowledge and is passing that knowledge on to the implementer. Legally speaking, a clean room implementation has much better defenses from claims of copyright violation.
I mean person b found the work of person a on their own
Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
The friend I am referring to I met at Stanford around April of 2026 in a dorm event. We've spoken in person exactly once (I use "friend" loosely to describe anyone I've spoken to who I'm not on bad terms with) and at no point did we discuss anything detailed about Apple Silicon. For further context, I left Apple in June of 2025.
Isn't that chat log from 2024?
am i crazy or is the date stamp not literally in the link?
Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#138All this work is tainted since the poster is ex-Apple[1]. There is no way Linux will take that code, since people from Apple also contribute to Linux and this creates a major conflict. There's also ongoing issues around Codex for this sort of thing, given Apple is suing OpenAI over stolen trade secrets[2]. And nobody knows whether training data in other models is similarly tainted. [1]: https://codyho.dev/documents/c…
> There's also ongoing issues around Codex for this sort of thing, given Apple is suing OpenAI over stolen trade secrets
these two things have absolutely nothing to do with each other whatsoever
Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#139Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
> crazy anti-LLM policies Weird how justified reasonable policies get the "crazy" label.
Asahi state as one of its goals upstreaming Apple Silicon support into Linux Kernel and kernel does not have similar anti-llm policies. Imagine what happen if OP submit patches upstream skipping Asahi and they gonna be accepted.
Imagine how crazy it is to be throwing shade at someone for having ethics and holding themselves to a higher than required standard.