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Running the unmodified Linux amdgpu driver on an iPad

43 points • by joshcsimmons • yesterday at 10:18 AM • 16 comments • view on HN

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bsaul • today at 8:26 AM

can someone explains this project ? i understand nothing about what it's doing... Do iPads have amd gpus ??

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skavi • today at 9:12 AM

what's with this driver being coupled to an IDE? is one the psychosis enabled bikeshed of the other?

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solyin • today at 9:37 AM

Got any pictures of the setup? Which enclosure did you use? Neat!

tgma • today at 9:10 AM

Would be interesting to render a real desktop environment directly on top of that from the iPad. You'd get an OpenDarwin-like thing with the power of M4.

mkesper • today at 8:24 AM

Unexpected interpretation of on-device inference:

    It drives an AMD GPU in a Thunderbolt enclosure.
But interesting it's possible to run Linux drivers on an iPad.
sneak • today at 9:01 AM

It's super cool, but then, the question becomes: why?

The eGPU enclosure isn't portable, so at that point, you could just plug it into a linux mini-pc. What's the benefit of using an iPad here?

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