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How is Asahi not native?

The drivers, while impressively reverse-engineered, are basically alpha-quality by Linux standards. Even well-studied M1 machines will have spotty support in comparison to what an OEM can provide officially.

Those that are implemented have been very reliable in my experience, I think that labeling them “alpha-quality by Linux standards” is a ridiculous claim

Then you need an Intel or AMD laptop as a frame of reference. M1 is implemented as-is with much of the silicon's onboard accelerators entirely dark. Hardware accelerated video encode/decode is a lost cause, Thunderbolt will likely never happen, NEON is your fastest SIMD accelerator and cpuidle is still not really figured out.

Those are all perfectly acceptable limitations for a POC. And the GPU drivers are particularly well-made. But it doesn't really come close to how seriously AMD and Intel take Linux.

There's a big difference between saying that many of the drivers are missing entirely, and saying that the drivers that exist are alpha-quality.

my dude no. https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/#tab...

even in the m1 there are 4 WIP in the support table, 2 TBA and 10 non mainline boxes for the M1 pro

> Those that are implemented

+1. Been running Asahi Linux for half a year now. Everything that's advertized as working is working great.

Asahi is also still a platform with a huge pile of out of tree patches on top because the platform itself is pretty unusual, requiring for example, a 16K page size kernel which is unlike pretty much every other arm Linux platform.

Presumably OP meant a Linux distro using a normal upstream kernel?

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