This is super great. The biggest pain point of Asahi Linux is how it doesn't have GPU acceleration on M3 and newer, especially now that M6 is out!

However, Asahi Linux has a strictly no-AI policy [1]. So this great work can't be upstreamed. I expect to see a bunch of AI-assisted forks that get things working smoothly on newer hardware to dominate as most people just care about getting stuff working, while only a handful of purists stick to the non-AI version running on ancient hardware.

[1] https://asahilinux.org/llm-policy/

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ADevWithAnIdea 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

:) I think we have a surprise in store here. Asahi don't have a monopoly over Linux for Apple Silicon, and upstream Linux absolutely does *NOT* ban LLMs.

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doctorpangloss 4 hours ago | parent [-]

i install proprietary modules for nvidia all the time, i'm not going to care if i have to do it for something else that i own

	▲	bpye 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Nvidia's kernel module is open source these days, it's the usermode stack that's still closed.

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zamadatix 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Asahi's long term goal is to get everything possible merged into the (actually) upstream projects anyways so any distro can just work. It'd be nice to see that continue rather than have forks on forks for the sake of singular differences (and it looks like proper upstreaming is what they are going after per the Remaining Work section).

	▲	cromka 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> upstream projects anyways so any distro can just work This may never end up working like that, considering how complicated installation is, comparatively speaking, and how macOS is still pretty much required to be installed.

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smith7018 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I imagine either they or others can take their discoveries and write a real driver now, though. The hard part was always the reversing the black box system.