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Tales of the M1 GPU

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Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

#12

Post by squarefoot »

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #6
dboreham wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Apple should upstream their drivers. To what upstream project?

i can only assume the poster meant apple should add linux drivers of M1/m2 to mainline linux kernel

I'm not sure Apple would want users to run anything but Apple operating systems on their hardware, and the other way around (fighting against hackintoshes back in the day). I hope to be proven wrong though, as their hardware is really interesting.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

#13

Post by nicoburns »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #2

Apple should upstream their drivers. Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person?

> Apple should upstream their drivers.

Apple don't have linux drivers. It would be great if they wrote some, but it's never going to happen.

> Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person?

The virtual persona of an actual person who has chosen to remain anonymous (hence the name which would be a crazy coincidence otherwise).

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

#14

Post by madeofpalk »

worldsavior wrote: post #7
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #2

Apple should upstream their drivers. Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person?

Asahi Lina is a maintainer in Asahi Linux project. She is now much known because of the achivement she earned, programming the Asahi Linux GPU driver for MacOS.

Is Asahi Lina a pseudonym? Is Asahi Linux named after her? Or is it all one big coincidence?

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

#15

Post by nicoburns »

The m1n1 hypervisor specialised for debugging is a pretty genius idea. Is anyone aware of anyone else taking a similar approach? Seems like it would be a pretty generally applicable technique and would make OS/hardware driver development a lot more approachable.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

#16

Post by nicoburns »

madeofpalk wrote: post #14
worldsavior wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asahi Lina is a maintainer in Asahi Linux project. She is now much known because of the achivement she earned, programming the Asahi Linux GPU driver for MacOS.

Is Asahi Lina a pseudonym? Is Asahi Linux named after her? Or is it all one big coincidence?

> Is Asahi Lina a pseudonym?

This one.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

#17

Post by rjsw »

squarefoot wrote: post #12
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i can only assume the poster meant apple should add linux drivers of M1/m2 to mainline linux kernel

I'm not sure Apple would want users to run anything but Apple operating systems on their hardware, and the other way around (fighting against hackintoshes back in the day). I hope to be proven wrong though, as their hardware is really interesting.

I thought someone had posted here that Apple ran Linux on their hardware for manufacturing tests.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

#18

Post by psychphysic »

What an interesting tale. But I feel like an anime character described it to me.

I'm totally fine with it (I'm grateful the story is being told at all), but it is surreal tone for technical writing.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by masklinn »

madeofpalk wrote: post #14
worldsavior wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asahi Lina is a maintainer in Asahi Linux project. She is now much known because of the achivement she earned, programming the Asahi Linux GPU driver for MacOS.

Is Asahi Lina a pseudonym? Is Asahi Linux named after her? Or is it all one big coincidence?

> Is Asahi Lina a pseudonym?

Yes

> Is Asahi Linux named after her?

Other way around, it’s a pseudonym created to work on the project, IIRC Lina got involved early-mid 2022 while Hector Martin started the project in late 2020 / early 2021.

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