Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s
Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s
Newest driver supports the latest versions of OpenGL and OpenGL ES.
I cannot imagine how difficult and rewarding the work doing this must be. I wish I was a good enough programmer to get involved.
I feel like I'm a decent programmer but stuff like this just feels like magic to me. Huge respect to the people who work on this kind of stuff.
Betcha the docs suck and you can make them better.
Actually they’ve been cleaned a bit recently. More hands the better though
Asahi Linux folks, impressive again
Maybe someday it'll be "You want to game on Apple hardware? Use Linux".
Well, it is already like that for x86 Macs. Once Asahi gets a solid Vulkan driver, this could also extend to the ARM Macs. Linux has been far more viable for gaming that MacOS for a while now. The lack of Vulkan and 32bit support in modern MacOS has been crippling for Wine/Proton, though it's gotten better thanks to Wine 9.0 and MoltenVK.
As soon as they can make multiple displays work over a single USB-C I may be able to ditch the double dongle nightmare I have right now
I think that that is a hardware limitation, not a software one
It’s not. It’s 100% a MacOS limitation, because you can use MST on Windows to drive multiple displays on Mac hardware, the same is likely possible with Asahi Linux if they want to support it. Apple doesn’t want to use MST because they want you to buy into their Thunderbolt displays for extra monitors, or you can just use DisplayLink if you’re desperate like me.
Now we just need Apple M* hardware that can be bought like a regular laptop or PC parts, but that's never happening sadly.
I wonder what in the Arm world compares GPU-wise with what Apple is doing...
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The team has been steadily improving its open source, standards-conformant GPU driver for the M1 and M2 since releasing them in December 2022, and today, the team crossed an important symbolic milestone: The Asahi driver's support for the OpenGL and OpenGL ES graphics have officially passed what Apple offers in macOS.
Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig wrote a detailed blog post that announced the new driver, which had to pass "over 100,000 tests" to be deemed officially conformant.
The team achieved this milestone despite the fact that Apple's GPUs don't support some features that would have made implementing these APIs more straightforward.
Rosenzweig's blog post didn't give any specific updates on Vulkan except to say that the team was "well on the road" to supporting it.
Though there are still things that don't work, Fedora Asahi Remix is surprisingly polished and supports a lot of the hardware available in most M1 and M2 Macs—including the webcam, speakers, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and graphics acceleration.
Other features, like Thunderbolt, running displays over USB-C, the system's built-in microphone, and the Touch ID fingerprint sensors, remain non-functional.
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Happy running Linux on my SP8 but this actually makes M1/2 Apple hardware appealing
I thought Apple didn't support OpenGL at all.
Damn...
Apple is a great company but this makes it a little better. The problem is that the hardware is extremely expensive and need a bunch of proprietary blobs not to mention custom Apple exclusive parts.