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Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end

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838 points alsetmusic | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 01:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.269s | source
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ActorNightly ◴[27 Aug 25 02:25 UTC] No.45034798[source]▶
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.
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kmeisthax ◴[27 Aug 25 03:56 UTC] No.45035307[source]▶
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".
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1. ActorNightly ◴[27 Aug 25 15:01 UTC] No.45040665[source]▶
Im not talking about chip level documentation. Apple could take their source code for drivers and compile the kernel level for linux (since its all just C code) while open sourcing the user space.