Over the past weekend, exciting progress was made in persuading 3D graphics to work in Linux on Apple Silicon.
Richard Speed for The Register:
Alyssa Rosenzweig, who is leading development of the Panfrost and Asahi Linux graphics drivers, showed off her continuing work in a succession of tweets involving Glmark2, an OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics performance benchmark tool for GNU/Linux, successfully rendering the bunny in 3D detail.
https://twitter.com/alyssarzg/status/1523475500097699840
It’s impressive considering the lack of official support from Apple. It’s therefore up to Rosenzweig and the community to reverse-engineer the hardware with the goal of creating drivers…
An early Alpha of Asahi Linux arrived in March and we were able to bring up a desktop on an M1 Mac with surprising ease.
MacDailyNews Take: In April, testing showed that Asahi Linux on an Apple M1 Mac mini is “unbelievably fast.”
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