• eurodyne@piefed.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Sheesh M4 Support already? Wow.

    While the Apple M4 SoCs aren’t yet supported by the mainline Linux kernel and the Apple M3 series hardware isn’t yet ready for end-users, there are some early elements of the Apple M4 support beginning to come together by open-source developers working on the Apple Silicon support. Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list were patches for enabling NVMe solid state drive support with the M4.

    Oh, still…

    • Zangoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      My understanding from the blogs is that the extra load of maintaining so many downstream patches (both for rust support and all of the reverse engineered hardware support) ended up being one of the main reasons M3/M4 support isn’t in Asahi yet. Now that a lot of the patches are finally getting merged into the kernel a lot of their other work can start moving forward