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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by pdpi on Friday September 30, 2022 @06:29AM (#33033136)
They do, demonstrably, have some sort of say. The M1 Macs have had deliberate support for 3rd party OSes since more or less day 1 (just not exposed/advertised), and Apple made some early changes to enable Asahi. Some recent comments by marcan on the topic:

https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1554395184473190400

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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by amelius on Friday September 30, 2022 @08:53AM (#33034199)
I don't see engineers having a say here. Instead, I see a lot of praying, begging and hoping in that thread.
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Re:Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 by saagarjha on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:58PM (#33043051)
What do you want, engineers explicitly coming out and saying they designed the system to make this possible? Oh wait, they did.
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