Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
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Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#2> GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol are absolutely insane
Perhaps before Astra was nerfed. It is now the dumbest model right after Gemini. Sol still holds up.
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#3> GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol are absolutely insane Perhaps before Astra was nerfed. It is now the dumbest model right after Gemini. Sol still holds up.
proof?
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#4Maybe I’m getting really old, and I know we live in changing times but the fact this works at all is insane, as in black magic insane.
I assume I’ll get used to it, but my mental model of what’s possible hasn’t been fully rewired yet.
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#5This is super great. The biggest pain point of Asahi Linux is how it doesn't have GPU acceleration on M3 and newer, especially now that M6 is out!
However, Asahi Linux has a strictly no-AI policy [1]. So this great work can't be upstreamed. I expect to see a bunch of AI-assisted forks that get things working smoothly on newer hardware to dominate as most people just care about getting stuff working, while only a handful of purists stick to the non-AI version running on ancient hardware.
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#6It'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.
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#7Figuring out how the hardware works and how to interface with it to submit work is a significant step all by itself.
Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#8This is super great. The biggest pain point of Asahi Linux is how it doesn't have GPU acceleration on M3 and newer, especially now that M6 is out! However, Asahi Linux has a strictly no-AI policy [1]. So this great work can't be upstreamed. I expect to see a bunch of AI-assisted forks that get things working smoothly on newer hardware to dominate as most people just care about getting stuff working, while only a hand…
I imagine either they or others can take their discoveries and write a real driver now, though. The hard part was always the reversing the black box system.
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#9Re: Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month
#10This is super great. The biggest pain point of Asahi Linux is how it doesn't have GPU acceleration on M3 and newer, especially now that M6 is out! However, Asahi Linux has a strictly no-AI policy [1]. So this great work can't be upstreamed. I expect to see a bunch of AI-assisted forks that get things working smoothly on newer hardware to dominate as most people just care about getting stuff working, while only a hand…
:) I think we have a surprise in store here. Asahi don't have a monopoly over Linux for Apple Silicon, and upstream Linux absolutely does *NOT* ban LLMs.