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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by lmm on Friday September 30, 2022 @12:32AM (#33030972)
It sets the wrong incentives. Companies that are more developer-friendly, publishing specs and so on, should be rewarded for it.
Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by _ph_ on Friday September 30, 2022 @08:12AM (#33033829)
In principle I would agree, but the world isn't black and white. First of all, in the PC world, there are few machines which are completely and well documented. That Linux runs on so much PC hardware is more due to the popularity than great documentation. NVidia just recently finally open sourced their drivers.

Could Apple improve the documentation a lot? For sure! Bu on the other side, the ARM Macs are a very nice platform, so I can understand the desire to use it. There is no competition at the moment, so it would be wrong too, to not support Linux there.