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Intel hires developer who reverse engineered the Apple M1 GPU, bringing open source Linux graphics to Apple Silicon

When the Asahi Linux team released its first alpha version of a GNU/Linux-based operating system for Macs with Apple M-series processors in 2022, things were still pretty rough around the edges. Thunderbolt, Bluetooth, cameras, and sleep mode weren’t working yet. And neither was hardware-accelerated graphics.

That’s all changed over the past few years. Last fall the team even announced you […]

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Read more: https://liliputing.com/intel-hires-developer-who-reverse-engineered-the-apple-m1-gpu-bringing-open-source-linux-graphics-to-apple-silicon/

Asahi Linux brings support for AAA gaming to Apple Silicon Macs running Linux

When Apple’s laptop and desktop computers were shipping with Intel processors, it was relatively easy to port GNU/Linux distributions to run on Apple hardware. Things got trickier when the company switched to designing its own chips in-house. But the folks behind the Asahi Linux team have been busy reverse engineering Apple’s M series processors for almost as long as they’ve been […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=172526

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