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AsahiLinux , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

To answer one question that keeps coming up: No, our GPU driver work cannot be ported to macOS in a useful manner.

While it is theoretically possible to run our Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on macOS, doing so would rely on an undocumented and unstable low-level GPU kernel API. This API changes with almost every macOS release, therefore making this a non-starter for production use. Your apps would break with every OS update.

There is, however, one entity that could take upon this effort: Apple themselves. As the drivers are permissively licensed, nothing stops them from integrating Mesa into macOS, and keeping the kernel API integration up to date with macOS releases.

So, if you want conformant OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.3 on macOS, look in Apple's direction. We're doing all the hard work for them, they just have to take it and use it. 😉​

AsahiLinux , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Introducing Honeykrisp: the world's first conformant Vulkan® 1.3 driver for Apple Silicon.

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/vk13-on-the-m1-in-1-month.html

AsahiLinux , vor einem Monat an Random Englisch

Important PSA: Do NOT update to macOS Sonoma 14.5

We are receiving reports that video output on some or all machines is broken after this update (possibly only desktops). We don't know yet whether this is an Apple regression or a bug/issue in our code. We are still investigating and will update with further details.

Update 1: We have confirmed that Asahi's recoveryOS instance still works, so this is not another major Apple bug situation, nor is there any danger of your machine in general becoming unbootable/unrecoverable. Users should hold off on updating even if they don't plan to use Asahi for the time being, as we don't know yet how easy it will be to fix the problem once Linux becomes unbootable.

Update 2: We believe this only affects M2 series desktops (Mini/Studio).