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Passing the Reins on Panfrost

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read between the lines?

huge success... I'm still alive...

valve?

"Lately, my focus has been ensuring the project can stand on its own four legs."

Boston Dynamics?

Another person who thought that is the answer:

https://www.supergoodcode.com/weekend/

It’s hard to overstate...

Popped up as well

Ooh, that would make sense. Working on Proton, or graphics driver for the Steam Deck?

Hmm, I thought Valve mainly contract Collabora to work on FOSS stuff for them rather than employing people directly.

> huge success... I'm still alive...

> valve?

But but ... does she said she's still fully alive or half-alive ?

(we can keep the joke alive too)

> It’s time for me to pass the reins.

Keyword is "reins": Move to Fiji and breed horses.

ARM? I don't have any clues to back it up though.

Read between the lines:

> ... conformant to the OpenGL ES 3.1 specification on Mali-G52 and Mali-G57...

> ... conformant to the OpenGL ES 3.1 ...

> ... 3.1 ...

HL3 confirmed, finally!

Aperture Laboratories, obviously.

It would be good if her Collabora email address could stay active, it is embedded in the Linux sources, it makes it a lot harder to get signoffs on changes if you need to lookup new email addresses for contributors.

The Panfrost project doesn't make itself easy to contact, IRC is the only method listed in the Mesa documentation.

> I plan to continue working on Mesa drivers for a long time

My guess is intel. Second is steam. Third is Amd.

Looks like she's joining Apple.

How would she join Apple but continue to work on Asahi Linux? That would be a pretty abrupt about-face for her or Apple, one or the other.

Why? Apple seems to pretty okay/cooperative with the project

General Apple policy is that employees can't contribute to any open source project without explicit permission, which is very rarely granted (which is why Apple's not on my list of potential employers)

Seems plausible that Apple would make an exception for a highly skilled engineer.

Having worked with several highly skilled engineers who went to Apple - no, it doesn't.

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