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		SamuelAdams 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead This might be crazy, but why does Ashai and its drivers need to be upstreamed to the Linux kernel at all? Why not fork Linux and call it something new, with the hardware support that is exclusively for M1/2/3/4 Mac’s?

exe34 8 days ago | [–]

They would have to play catch up for a few years rebasing off the latest and then eventually lose interest and it will all stop working. Same thing that happens with most arm devices that aren't upstreamed.

tuna74 8 days ago | [–]

As written in the article, Mesa will not enable drivers if there is no HW driver in Linux.

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