Asahi Linux alpha release

Re:Asahi Linux alpha release by Raymonf on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:13PM (#30729378)

Come on, it's the first alpha. If you _need_ it, I'm sure they wouldn't mind you contributing a driver to check it off this page: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Tasks

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Re:Asahi Linux alpha release by DougMellon on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:47PM (#30729656)

Any suggestions for a good way to learn driver development?

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Re:Asahi Linux alpha release by rowanG077 on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:07PM (#30729807)

It's not that different from any other C development. If you know C you can basically hit the ground running. Just read the sources.

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Re:Asahi Linux alpha release by zozbot234 on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:15PM (#30729876)

If low-level embedded coding "is not different from any other C development", that's not really a positive remark about C. No wonder that software defects are so common in C code.

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Re:Asahi Linux alpha release by tedunangst on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:40PM (#30730044)

What are you expecting to be so different? You call the right functions with the right arguments to get it to do what you want. What language do you use that you can program by calling the wrong function with the wrong arguments?

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Re:Asahi Linux alpha release by floatboth on Friday March 18, 2022 @09:38PM (#30730022)

That's if working from documentation. With independent FOSS driver development, the big deal is the reverse engineering.

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