Asahi Lina Pausing Work On Apple GPU Linux Driver Development
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  • cholesterol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    Slight mixing of signals here: Sharing that the personal reason is that you ‘no longer feel safe’ is going to create way more speculation and therefore more questions.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@infosec.pubEnglish
    42·
    6 hours ago

    Tbh with all I know, this situation is very weird and may have signs of conspiracy. I personally wouldn’t trust any sources, including the developer themselves. People can be pretty unhinged nowadays for pretty ridiculous reasons.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    24 hours ago

    From the article …

    Asahi Lina posted to Bluesky today:

    "For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I’ve paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

    I can’t share any more information at this time, so please don’t ask for more details. Thank you."

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      I just wanna run fedora on an M4 already

      Don’t count on it. According to their website not even M3 is supported.

      • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        Yes, I know. Asahi has been a couple years behind apple architecture. It took almost two full years before M1 was supported.

        It’ll be be even longer if the top devs keep leaving the project.

        • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Nouveau is supported by Red Hat and even that’s not a suitable replacement for proprietary NVidia drivers and that’s only the GPU part. An entire computer platform is an even bigger task, so unless Apple starts releasing some source code under a usable license, the project will always play catchup.

          • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            49 minutes ago

            Yes it will always play catchup. However a combined 8 years of targeted Apple Silicon development expertise has left the project in the past month. A big loss to the team is also all the organizational momentum from that as well. Hopefully another team picks up the project if this team cannot finish it.

            I’ve contributed to quite a few opensource projects in the past. I know how to work around binary blobs and what troubleshooting, reverse engineering it takes.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      It takes a special type of person to be a Foss developer. There isn’t a lot of pay and unfortunately a lot of people seem to feel entitled to your work. It’s a hard thing to manage. I know the head of the project left because of that feeling. Not sure what this new departure is about exactly. Though it could be related to him just as much as anything else.