This article chronicles the Asahi Linux project's journey in reverse-engineering the Apple M1 GPU and achieving full graphics acceleration under Linux on M1/M2 Macs. Alyssa Rosenzweig details her collaboration with Hector Martin, starting from December 2020, leading to OpenGL driver development, shader compilation, and eventual shipping of graphics acceleration in December 2022.
Background
Asahi Linux is an open-source project to port Linux to Apple Silicon Macs. The project has been a significant effort in the open-source community to achieve full hardware compatibility on Apple's proprietary ARM-based chips.
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- Lobsters
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- Aug 27, 2026 at 09:32 AM
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- 7.0 / 10