Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1 chips arrives

Re:Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1... by chippiewill on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:50AM (#34877602)

But even that's a bit weird in the context of the kernel 6.2 release because Alyssa's work generally hasn't been around the Kernel, she's been working on the userspace driver.

It's Asahi Lina who really did the kernel driver (building on Alyssa's reverse engineering work).

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Re:Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1... by delroth on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:58AM (#34877666)

> It's Asahi Lina who really did the kernel driver (building on Alyssa's reverse engineering work).

Mostly based on her own reverse engineering work actually (which was all livestreamed). Alyssa's work was on the shader ISA and what goes into the various command queues to get the GPU to do useful things, Lina's work was on the lower level aspects of how the queues even work, interactions with the firmware, power management, etc.

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Re:Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1... by kristianp on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:05AM (#34878640)

Isn't Asahi Lina, Marcan's alter-ego? Apologies if I got the wrong end of the stick there.

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Re:Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1... by viraptor on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:11AM (#34878690)

Maybe, maybe not. Since it's not explicitly public, it's nicer not to assume that or ask. Privacy is a big thing in vtubers community.

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Re:Linux 6.2: The first mainstream Linux kernel for Apple M1... by chippiewill on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:53PM (#34885190)

Probably. Maybe.

They use all the same tools etc. But given Asahi Lina has chosen not to reveal their identity it's better to just assume it's a different person.

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