Hails the combo as finally making Arm ‘usable as a development platform’
Linus Torvalds has released version 5.19 of the project, and hailed Apple’s homebrew silicon – and the Asahi Linux distribution that runs on it – for making Arm-powered computers useful for developers.
In his announcement of the release, Torvalds called out work to support for the made-in-China Loongarch RISC architecture as an important step, along with «another batch of the networking sysctl READ_ONCE() annotations to make some of the data race checker code happy.»
Torvalds then revealed he’s got his hands on some Apple silicon.
«On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It’s something I’ve been waiting for for a _loong_ time, and its finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team,» he wrote.
