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Tales of the M1 GPU

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Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

nicoburns wrote: post #13
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).

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

Man... if I was a conspiracy theorist who believed Apple was genuinely evil, what if Asahi Lina is an Apple employee? ;)

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by qrio2 »

psychphysic wrote: post #18

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.

pretty much the appeal(?) of asahi lina. it's been a weird ride to follow for sure.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

nicoburns wrote: post #15

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.

Not that I know of. m1n1 originated from software that (IIRC) was used initially for reverse-engineering the Wii.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by dimator »

watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! it's easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by embedded3 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #22
nicoburns wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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).

> Who is Asahi Lina? Is that an actual person? Man... if I was a conspiracy theorist who believed Apple was genuinely evil, what if Asahi Lina is an Apple employee? ;)

Apple has pushed OS updates to help the Asahi team, though they did not publicize this, of course.
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