Reverse Engineering Apple's M1 GPU: The Technical Journey to Linux Support on Apple Silicon
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Summary
The article details the technical journey of reverse-engineering Apple's M1 GPU and developing Linux support for M1 and M2 Macs. It follows the author's involvement from initial guidance to becoming a key contributor in the Asahi Linux project, which successfully achieved full hardware functionality including wireless, audio, and graphics acceleration on Apple Silicon devices.
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· 5 pulledToday, you can run Linux on a range of M1 and M2 Macs, with almost all hardware working: wireless, audio, and full graphics acceleration.
Our story begins in December 2020, when Hector Martin kicked off Asahi Linux.
I was working for Collabora working on Panfrost, the open source Mesa3D driver for Arm Mali GPUs.
Hector put out a public call for guidance from upstream open source maintainers, and I bit.
I just intended to give some quick pointers. Instead, I bought my...
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