Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19

I was watching Bladerunner last night, specifically the part where Ford is zooming in on the photograph using voice commands.

Above the display is an amber horizontal bar that changes in sync with the activity on the display and my first thought was, "Finally they found a use for the Mac Touch Bar!"

The Touch Bar has so many uses in Linux I can't wait for it to work.

the money quote (at least for some)

    In fact, the current state of M3 support is about where M1 support was when we released the first Arch
    Linux ARM based beta; keyboard, touchpad, WiFi, NVMe and USB3 are all working, albeit with some local 
    patches to m1n1 and the Asahi kernel (yet to make their way into a pull request) required. So that 
    must mean we will have a release ready soon, right?

Great work. I believe used M1/M2 machines will be favored by young developers as their personal fun laptop in a few years, like the Thinkpad T420 used to be. For different reasons, of course.

Do the M4 and M5 GPUs also change a lot from the M3? I hope it's not too much work to get those going once M3 is usable.

I often wonder whether the folks at Apple have the Asahi team on their radar. Are they in awe of the reverse engineering marvels coming out of the Asahi project, or are they indifferent to it?

Man, I know it’s probably going to be a while longer, but I’m really looking forward to the day I can run Asahi on my M4 Air.

This is incredibly impressive and also quite sad. Six years later, we have a very-nearly-right kernel for the M1.

Apple is launching the M5. It seems like the future is going to be a world of closed systems and custom silicon, with any free software lagging far behind.

120Hz is awesome! That was the last feature I personally felt was missing from my M1 Pro MBP.

Just came to praise the seven heroic souls who are working on this wonderful project that my M1 is just waiting to install once battery life meets my needs. And may I ask why, with all the crypto and tech money floating around, does Asahi not have a fully funded staff of fifty people?