An Asahi Linux 6.15 progress report

Date:
Fri, 16 May 2025 13:26:27 +0000

Description:
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.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1021484/


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