After only 2 years, it's already usable.
See
here
Also a good occasion to see a driver written in Rust!
After only 2 years, it's already usable.
See here
It's been usable as a headless server for at least a year now. By far the highest performance ARM Linux machine you can get. Especially if you get a Mac Studio! (ok, I don't know whether that's supported yet)
I've been running Linux in a VM on my M1 Mac since late November 2020 (geez, more than two years) with great performance. On the initial 8 GB machines shipped it was pretty tight for serious work because you couldn't really give more than 4 GB to Linux, but once the 16 GB machines shipped in early 2021 it's been fine.
Here's a page I put up on 2020-11-23 that includes arm64 Ubuntu in a VM results ("minivm"):
https://hoult.org/arm64_mini.html
They wrote an hypervisor to reverse engineering the Mac os m1 GPU driver.
The Vulkan support keeps getting better.
I have been using my ppcg4 since 2004, with nothing but mwm.
The ati128 has less support than the m1 GPU.
That's amazing!!!
p.s.
The best ARM platform is the Ampere Altra Max with 128-cores on chip!!!
p.s.
The best ARM platform is the Ampere Altra Max with 128-cores on chip!!!
What does it cost, and where can I get one?
Apple will sell you a 20 core M1 (16 performance + 4 economy) with 64 GB very very fast in-package RAM and 1 TB SSD for $3999. If you want 128 GB in-package RAM that's an extra $800.
Last I checked, a comparable x86 will cost you $2k+ just for the CPU.
So how much for that Ampere?
Dunno who?why? But last week somehow one of those crazy irons (rack version) got delivered to my boss as dev-sample-something, and she parked it on my colleague's desk with just a paper note on a little piece of paper "have fun"
Thanks God not on my desk
I think it's enough for me
Anyhow, I'd like to meet in person that nice hacker girl.
On her YouTube channel she looks like Sailor Moon,
but she wrote the first world Rust driver for Linux/m1 !!!!
Appeal-=10
Apeal+=10000
Happy hacking.
Anyhow, I'd like to meet in person that nice hacker girl.
On her YouTube channel she looks like Sailor Moon,
but she wrote the first world Rust driver for Linux/m1 !!!!
Asahi Lina. The voice on YouTube seems altered to sound female. Does good work.
Yup. May be I will date and interview a string of A.I.
(exciting and terrifying at the same time)
I am going to buy a second M1 laptop.
The older one will be dedicated to Gentoo/M1.
Scheduled Linux kernel v6.*/M1-stage{1-3,4}-2023->=5 (importing stuff from archlinux).
Dream: Haiku/M1, I mean natively rather than inside a vm-x86 emulator.
One day ... in the far far future ...
It's sad that the corporate generated public brainwashing has created an environment where this actually needs to be said on their website.
Is this legal?
As long as no code is taken from macOS to build the Linux support, the result is completely legal to distribute and for end-users to use, as it would not be a derivative work of macOS. Please see our Copyright & Reverse Engineering Policy for more information.
well it's not an hack, Apple left the door open from the bootloader up, so ... it's
100% legal.
Ummm, still I have to understand *?WHY?* there is also an
u-boot repo in their Git
p.s.
The best ARM platform is the Ampere Altra Max with 128-cores on chip!!!
What does it cost, and where can I get one?
Apple will sell you a 20 core M1 (16 performance + 4 economy) with 64 GB very very fast in-package RAM and 1 TB SSD for $3999. If you want 128 GB in-package RAM that's an extra $800.
Last I checked, a comparable x86 will cost you $2k+ just for the CPU.
So how much for that Ampere?
its cheap... just about $45/core...
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ampere-altra-max-128-core-priced dont forget to buy big psu and heatsink as well...
its cheap... just about $45/core... https://www.tomshardware.com/news/ampere-altra-max-128-core-priced dont forget to buy big psu and heatsink as well...
Comments on that story:
"Cost a fraction? Its almost 80+% of the X86 processors."
"8/10 is a fraction."
That's only the CPU but yeah a full system will work out cheaper than Apple, but considerably lower single-threaded performance.
For work & running Linux, I prefer to buy a workstation that is guranteed to work with Linux by the manufacturer (e.g. Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, etc.).
I don't like surprises...
Certain stuff is only for brave hearts
(Haiku on risc-v + hacked and GPU)
Linux/M1 will fix, once for ever, all the Alsa/OSS/pulse/&C problems.
That's great! It's non only the kernel, it's also the rootfs, patches pushed upstream.
Great guys and girls!
Respect
By lacking audio hardware drivers in the first place?
By the SoC not having audio hardware in the first place?
Not sure what you mean
anyway since i replied.... why it always come down to audio and display? how about... Epson/Canon/Nikon printers/scanners/cameras. another vast numbers of vendors of specialized devices... Pen Stylus, Colori and Spectro meters to name a few... because.... games! my colleague has to bring my old Epson printer at the office home because her new Epson printer cant be installed in her mac machine.
my colleague has to bring my old Epson printer at the office home because her new Epson printer cant be installed in her mac machine.
Why did she buy a printer that can't be installed in her mac machine?
because new printers are trendy... besides, who wants to buy older model? esp if its not available anymore.
because new printers are trendy... besides, who wants to buy older model? esp if its not available anymore.
Other new printers that can be installed in her mac machine were sold out?
because new printers are trendy... besides, who wants to buy older model? esp if its not available anymore.
Other new printers than can be installed in her mac machine were sold out?
What kind of recent (last 15 years, if not 25) Epson printer doesn't work on a Mac?
By lacking audio hardware drivers in the first place?
By the SoC not having audio hardware in the first place?
Not sure what you mean
The sound infrastructure on GNU/Linux sucks at both kernel and usetland sides.
Those M1 guys and girls are willing to fix stuff, add new stuff, and upload everything main stream.
By lacking audio hardware drivers in the first place?
By the SoC not having audio hardware in the first place?
Not sure what you mean
The sound infrastructure on GNU/Linux sucks at both kernel and usetland sides.
Those M1 guys and girls are willing to fix stuff, add new stuff, and upload everything main stream.
I don't think rewriting an entire kernel subsystem is one of their current plans.
Really? ALSA is not bad.
Sure, it is not so that bad: it can fry both speakets on a M1 laptop.
(That's why speackets are not currently supported)
Really? ALSA is not bad.
Sure, it is not so that bad: it can fry both speakets on a M1 laptop.
(That's why speackets are not currently supported)
... that's because they haven't figured out how to properly configure the hardware. It has nothing to do with the existing audio framework, and they're not going to be rewriting things not pertaining to supporting the platform..
because new printers are trendy... besides, who wants to buy older model? esp if its not available anymore.
Other new printers than can be installed in her mac machine were sold out?
What kind of recent (last 15 years, if not 25) Epson printer doesn't work on a Mac?
epson L3210 if i'm not mistaken.. no one has the luxury to verify if it can work in mac or linux during shopping..besides, mac/linux is only for very special persons here (seldom) and everybody assume mac/linux should be good enough for every devices.. she and another in law are 2 regular person who usually came to me to ask help, if its mac/linux specific problem, i shrug and tell them to go to service center...
What kind of recent (last 15 years, if not 25) Epson printer doesn't work on a Mac?
epson L3210 if i'm not mistaken.. no one has the luxury to verify if it can work in mac or linux during shopping..besides, mac/linux is only for very special persons here (seldom) and everybody assume mac/linux should be good enough for every devices.. she and another in law are 2 regular person who usually came to me to ask help, if its mac/linux specific problem, i shrug and tell them to go to service center...
I just literally Googled "epson L3210 mac driver" and got...
https://epson.com.jm/Support/Printers/All-In-Ones/L-Series/Epson-L3210/s/SPT_C11CJ68301... which offers drivers for MacOS from 10.5 (2007) to 10.15 inclusive to 13.x (current).
I would be pretty stunned if it was otherwise.
Yeah it should be easily googable if its there. Dont know what happened, she only got working the older model.. i guess the people who got sucked by 'its all work guaranteed for 20 years' marketing stunt... i wont touch with 10' barge pole, i just dont know and dont care to find where setting is, i'm struggling myself to understand all the new Windows setting architecture...
Wait untill windows 13 has arrived...
Really? ALSA is not bad.
Sure, it is not so that bad: it can fry both speakets on a M1 laptop.
(That's why speackets are not currently supported)
... that's because they haven't figured out how to properly configure the hardware. It has nothing to do with the existing audio framework, and they're not going to be rewriting things not pertaining to supporting the paltform..
You mean, that's because the hardware can be fried by the software simply instructing it to do so
Really? ALSA is not bad.
Sure, it is not so that bad: it can fry both speakets on a M1 laptop.
(That's why speackets are not currently supported)
... that's because they haven't figured out how to properly configure the hardware. It has nothing to do with the existing audio framework, and they're not going to be rewriting things not pertaining to supporting the platform..
Alsa has defects.
The kernel sound infrastructure has defects.
Of course, first they have to fix the sense-stuff, then finalize the Audio driver,.then they are willing to fix and improve other stuff from Alsa up.
Really? ALSA is not bad.
Sure, it is not so that bad: it can fry both speakets on a M1 laptop.
(That's why speackets are not currently supported)
... that's because they haven't figured out how to properly configure the hardware. It has nothing to do with the existing audio framework, and they're not going to be rewriting things not pertaining to supporting the platform..
Alsa has defects.
The kernel sound infrastructure has defects.
Can you make a clear list of them?
Really? ALSA is not bad.
Sure, it is not so that bad: it can fry both speakets on a M1 laptop.
(That's why speackets are not currently supported)
... that's because they haven't figured out how to properly configure the hardware. It has nothing to do with the existing audio framework, and they're not going to be rewriting things not pertaining to supporting the platform..
Alsa has defects.
The kernel sound infrastructure has defects.
Of course, first they have to fix the sense-stuff, then finalize the Audio driver,.then they are willing to fix and improve other stuff from Alsa up.
Are they? They've stated their intention to shift their scope from platform development to rewriting entire subsystems? Or are we just deliriously optimistic?
It's impossible to write usefull software without defects.
If you believe you can, show it and you'll be rich.