Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
by KetoManx64 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @11:57AM
(#50406031)
You must not work with AI tools very much. The brute force approach as a first/second pass is very standard when doing reverse engineering with AI. You get the functionality figured out and get the basics working and then you just iterate on that and massage it into what you need it to be. Omarchy has practically unlimited tokens and every other week there is a new model being released that is more captable than the previous that will just massage things into place with each iteration.
> Omarchy has practically unlimited tokens
And yet they have a total of zero upstreamed PRs, and haven't fixed enormous and glaring issues like PSCI control either.
It's almost as if the parent is correct, and Apple's ARM architecture isn't standardized enough for ordinary models to blindly reverse-engineer with normal data. If tokens were the only constraint on supporting Apple Silicon, we'd have reversed the entire SOC device tree years ago. Alas:
Re:Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
by KetoManx64 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:43PM
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> And yet they have a total of zero upstreamed PRs, and haven't fixed enormous and glaring issues like PSCI control either.
Why should I care about if they upstream their patches or not? I have a working M3 macbook that runs Omarchy, why do I care that it's in the mainline Linux kernel? My GrapheneOS phone doesn't run mainstream Linux kernel, but it does the job that I need it to do.
Just read other people explaining this in this thread.
upstreamed PR means nothing in 2026. I couldn't care less when some maintainer are just so political, still remember the rust in kernel drama a couple of years ago? why great work have to get approvals from those people?
Sure, let's see how the hardware you enjoy in November behaves in March after they upgrade the kernel ot 7.5.
If an LLM can write working code in the first place, it can almost certainly port it to an updated kernel. I first got my M4 Pro running Linux under 7.2, and moving to 7.3 took Claude about 15 minutes.
Upstreamed PRs are the only thing people run. You can whine, sling ad-hominem at maintainers and recompile a custom kernel for every minor version bump, but nobody else is going to. If you don't go through the upstream, your code is never being run at-scale.
Debugging is not an issue, they seem to have it figured out. It's the design that takes time.
Meanwhile Omarchy, for example, just brute-forces everything, with patches that work today but cannot be mainstreamed, so they'll break tomorrow with new kernel release. I really expect them to start struggling a lot going forward with maintaining the support they claim.