[tomek@vz]

Prominent Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter spoke at this week's 39th Chaos Communication Congress "39C3" in Hamburg, Germany. He provided an update around the still-in-the-works Apple M3 / M4 / M5 SoC and device support as well as other outstanding features like getting DisplayPort working on Apple Macs under Linux.

Sven covered the many patches they upstreamed this year from the Asahi Linux project to the mainline Linux kernel, many of which were covered on Phoronix. There was USB3 support, System Management Controller (SMC), SPMI, audio, and other bits that made it to mainline namely for the Apple M1 / M2 hardware.

Sven acknowledges that the biggest kernel code still not yet upstream is for the display controller and enabling the GPU driver functionality.

On the display side, Asahi Linux developers have been working on the DisplayPort connectivity. For that there are now experimental DisplayPort patches for Asahi Linux via their "fairydust" tree.

> Asahi Linux Has Experimental Code For DisplayPort, Apple M3/M4/M5 Bring-Up Still Ongoing


Lijepo je vidjeti da su Mac strojevi sa M čipovima "upotrebljivi" na Linuxu. Iako smatram da kao novi koštaju malo previše i da je popravljivost istih loša ili nikakva u odnosu na konkurenciju - Mac hardware je vrlo primamljiv po pitanju kvalitete i performansi (po potrošnji) i nebih se bunio protiv jednog Macbook Air 13 sa M1 čipom jednog dana...još da pod Linuxom do tad sve radi kak spada - milina.