• An Asahi Linux 6.15 progress report

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Sat May 17 06:40:08 2025

    The Asahi Linux
    project, which supports Linux on Apple Silicon Macs, has published a
    progress report ahead of the 6.15 kernel's release.

    We are pleased to announce that our graphics driver userspace API
    (uAPI) has been merged into the Linux kernel. This major milestone
    allows us to finally enable OpenGL, OpenCL and Vulkan support for
    Apple Silicon in upstream Mesa. This is the only time a graphics
    driver's uAPI has been merged into the kernel independent of the
    driver itself, which was kindly allowed by the kernel graphics
    subsystem (DRM) maintainers to facilitate upstream Mesa enablement
    while the required Rust abstractions make their way upstream. We are
    grateful for this one-off exception, made possible with close
    collaboration with the kernel community.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1021484/
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