Comment by bigyabai

1 day ago

The drivers, while impressively reverse-engineered, are basically alpha-quality by Linux standards. Even well-studied M1 machines will have spotty support in comparison to what an OEM can provide officially.

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noname120  20 hours ago

Those that are implemented have been very reliable in my experience, I think that labeling them “alpha-quality by Linux standards” is a ridiculous claim

  • bigyabai  18 hours ago

    Then you need an Intel or AMD laptop as a frame of reference. M1 is implemented as-is with much of the silicon's onboard accelerators entirely dark. Hardware accelerated video encode/decode is a lost cause, Thunderbolt will likely never happen, NEON is your fastest SIMD accelerator and cpuidle is still not really figured out.

    Those are all perfectly acceptable limitations for a POC. And the GPU drivers are particularly well-made. But it doesn't really come close to how seriously AMD and Intel take Linux.

    • wtallis  3 hours ago

      There's a big difference between saying that many of the drivers are missing entirely, and saying that the drivers that exist are alpha-quality.

  • neobrain  9 hours ago

    +1. Been running Asahi Linux for half a year now. Everything that's advertized as working is working great.