Comment by nottorp
2 months ago
But has Asashi managed to have support for bells and whistles like graphics acceleration and sleep by now?
This SoC may actually have Linux drivers.
2 months ago
But has Asashi managed to have support for bells and whistles like graphics acceleration and sleep by now?
This SoC may actually have Linux drivers.
It does have graphics acceleration and you can even play AAA titles with fex [1] since last year. But many bells and whistles still don't work --- for example, the video decoding hardware, proper sleep, etc.
Anyway, I've been using it on my Macbook Air M2 and it works fine for my use case [3]. Pretty smooth.
[1] https://rosenzweig.io/blog/aaa-gaming-on-m1.html
[3] https://daniel.lawrence.lu/blog/2024-12-01-asahi-linux-with-...
> proper sleep
:(
The one feature that only works properly when using both Apple hardware and software...
From 2017-2023 I had Thinkpads and some Acer which was well supported by Linux and sleep was the worse part. On numerous occasions across different devices I'd put the laptop to sleep, put it in my bag, and pull it out in a coffee shop to find it was on and now the battery is down to 50%. Why is sleep so hard?
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Graphics acceleration yes - and more fully featured than Panfrost for Mali at that, but I think sleep is still just s2idle.