Handily, the team spotted a bug in Linux’s ARM SMMU support too
2022 looks set to be the year of Linux on the desktop. By which we mean the Mac M1 desktop, judging by this week’s emission from the Asahi Linux team. While a good deal of Apple M1 support has turned up in the Linux kernel of late (early bits and pieces were released in 5.13, more has been merged into 5.16 and yet more is waiting in the wings for 5.17), it’s still not really ready for end users. And that’s without considering that new M1 Pro and Max chips have turned up in MacBook Pros. Project lead Hector Martin noted some of the challenges posed by the new M1 silicon as Apple shifted from a component seemingly lifted out of an iPhone and lightly breathed over to something that could scale up both in terms of memory and CPU cores.
