The blog post details the journey of reverse-engineering the Apple M1 GPU to enable Linux compatibility, initiated by Hector Martin in December 2020. The author, who worked at Collabora, describes their efforts in developing an Op...
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0Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux
2024-12-02 •
Khronos Group released Vulkan 1.4, the standard graphics API. Asahi Linux announced the first Vulkan 1.4 driver for Apple hardware, available in their official repositories. The driver standardizes important features and is also c...
0AAA gaming on Asahi Linux
2024-10-10 •
Asahi Linux has released a game playing toolkit that integrates Vulkan 1.3 drivers with x86 emulation and Windows compatibility, along with conformant OpenCL 3.0. The toolkit allows gaming on M1/M2-series systems, but most games r...
0Vulkan 1.3 on the M1 in 1 month
2024-06-05 •
The text discusses the development of the Honeykrisp driver, the first conformant Vulkan for Apple hardware on any operating system, implementing the full 1.3 spec without 'portability' waivers. It details the process of building ...
0Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
2024-02-14 •
The M1 now supports OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2, promising broad compatibility with modern OpenGL workloads. The drivers are conformant to the latest OpenGL versions, enabling applications to run anywhere without special ports. T...
0The first conformant M1 GPU driver
2023-08-22 •
Conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs, compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Asahi Linux users can upgrade their system for the latest drivers. The drivers passed tens of thousands ...
0OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux
2023-06-06 •
Asahi Linux systems are getting a big boost with the graphics drivers leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 support bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. The drivers are experimental and not yet co...
0Growing up Alyssa
2023-05-21 •
The text is about the author's experience growing up as a transgender person, the challenges they faced, and the impact of anti-trans legislation. The author discusses their access to gender-affirming care, the impact of such care...
0Passing the reins on Panfrost
2023-04-10 •
The author reflects on their time leading the Panfrost driver at Collabora, highlighting the progress made in supporting a broad spectrum of Mali GPUs and conforming to the OpenGL ES 3.1 specification. They express confidence in t...
0Apple GPU drivers now in Asahi Linux
2022-12-07 •
The text announces the release of the first Apple GPU driver by Asahi Linux. It is an alpha driver that supports OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 for Apple M-series systems. The text also discusses future plans for supporting more app...
0Clip control on the Apple GPU
2022-08-22 •
The open source 'Asahi' driver for the Apple GPU is running real games, with Neverball already playable. The driver relies on reverse-engineering the behaviour of Apple’s Metal driver, and there are two graphics APIs called 'Metal...
0The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug
2022-05-13 •
The text discusses the reverse-engineering of Apple's GPU architecture, AGX, and the discovery of a bug that causes the driver to fail to render large amounts of geometry. The bug is traced to the amount of data interpolated per v...
The text discusses how software freedom is not just about licenses, but about power dynamics. It highlights the issues of user autonomy, tracking, data selling, psychological manipulation, intrusive advertising, planned obsolescen...
0Fun and Games with Exposure Notifications
2020-09-07 •
The text discusses the Exposure Notifications protocol developed by Apple and Google for COVID-19 contact tracing on mobile phones. It explores the possibility of implementing the protocol on Linux devices, focusing on Bluetooth, ...
0The Federation Fallacy
2019-03-03 •
The text discusses the concept of decentralization and federation in the free software community. It highlights the challenges and impracticalities of decentralization, using examples of e-mail, XMPP, the web, and Mastodon. It arg...
The text presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh using the divergence theorem. The algorithm is efficient and contains no numerical integration or differentiation. It is O(n) to t...