This project has been so impressive and exciting. I hope power management is a serious concern once they nail all the reverse engineering and functionality. Battery life would be a huge differentiator for the day to day macbook usage and traditionally Linux has been terrible at that due to lack of proprietary & highly tuned drivers

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paulryanrogers 11 hours ago | parent [-]

How likely is such tuning to happen within the practical lifetime of these devices? It's already been years and Linux isn't even feature complete on newer models.

Apple's indifference to OSS does not give me much hope.

	▲	GeekyBear 14 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The new project leadership team prioritized upstreaming the existing work first. Once the upstreaming was largely done, they first mentioned beginning the work of adding M3 support in the February progress report. Now we have this: > With all of this progress coming on top of milestones already reached on M3, we are pleased to announce that we are almost ready to cut an official release! We will have more to say about this in the coming weeks, so stay tuned! I'm not seeing any reason for gloom or doom.
	▲	superb_dev 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Given the enormous lifetime of these devices, I’d say chances are pretty good! The only thing that’s going to make an M series Mac obsolete is when Apple stops releasing updates. If you can run Linux on it, that thing is going to last forever.
	▲	LoganDark 10 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I would assume that once you have fully functional support for entire historical SoCs, the effort stops being "get most things working on most chips" and starts becoming "adapt already-working things to the newest chips". Yes, it's been years, but there's still so much hardware that Asahi doesn't have good support for yet, and that's dividing the efforts to support the newest chips. I'm sure that once all the existing chips are well-supported, new chips will be fairly quick to bring up.