Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?

Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by AtlasBarfed on Sunday November 29, 2020 @11:22PM (#25250701)

If the M1 is a close derivative architecture of high efficiency mobile scaled to desktop, would scaled up Android processors really be that far away from M1? I know Apple A-series had some edge over Snapdragons, but was the gap between Android processors that big?

There are many hundred billion dollar companies motivated to close the gap. It may not be this year.

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by hachari on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:23AM (#25250961)

“I know Apple A-series had some edge over Snapdragons, but was the gap between Android processors that big?”

Absolutely

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by AtlasBarfed on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:58AM (#25255913)

Remember there is the 5nm advantage.

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by sbuk on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:33PM (#25257184)

What about the other A-series processors? Excluding the A14, they all used the same process as other ARM based processors, but also have a big performance advantage.

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by frankchn on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:15AM (#25250940)

The A14 is significantly faster than the Kirin 9000 (Cortex A77 on TSMC 5nm) on SPECint and SPECfp: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

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Re:Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon? by ampdepolymerase on Monday November 30, 2020 @12:15AM (#25250939)

There is the Microsoft SQ2 and the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2.

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