The End-Of-Year 2021 State Of Linux On Apple's M1 SoC

[phoronix]

Phoronix: The End-Of-Year 2021 State Of Linux On Apple's M1 SoC

The Asahi Linux project has published their October and November status update to provide an overview of where the Apple Silicon / Apple M1 open-source support is now at as we approach the end of 2021...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-M1-Silicon-EO-2021

[microcode]

That SPI HID is actually a cool thing about this hardware. Seems like a reasonable way to connect local HID in an integrated device like this. Better at boot, and for power, when compared with USB (not to mention a huge diference in complexity); and not limited like PS/2 (the old favorite way to connect integrated input devices).

[gbudny]

It has the ARM processor.

Do you know if commercial games build for Raspberry Pi will work on this computer?

We only have tree commercial games for Linux ARM:

- Airline Tycoon Deluxe
- Conquest of Elysium 3
- Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

[Developer12]

It has the ARM processor.

Do you know if commercial games build for Raspberry Pi will work on this computer?

We only have tree commercial games for Linux ARM:

- Airline Tycoon Deluxe
- Conquest of Elysium 3
- Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

Either distros' arm packages will support the M1, or they'll compile a special version for it (much as asahi are trying to prevent that being necessary). Assuming they support M1 macs.

Of course, if you're impatient you can try compiling a source package yourself.

[Aryma]

waste of time

[Developer12]

waste of time

Dunno about you, but I'd like to run linux on a fast and power-efficient CPU. There's also an argument to be made for user ownership, since these cores lack anything like an intel management engine or AMD platform security processor.

[tildearrow]

Either distros' arm packages will support the M1, or they'll compile a special version for it (much as asahi are trying to prevent that being necessary). Assuming they support M1 macs.

Of course, if you're impatient you can try compiling a source package yourself.

Did you read? "Commercial"

How do you expect to get the source for a closed-source game?

[Developer12]

Did you read? "Commercial"

How do you expect to get the source for a closed-source game?

Ah, yes. Must have read something else.

Hopefully if the builds don't work (though I don't see why not?) then emulation of an arm-based raspi on an arm-based M1 will hopefully be reasonably fast. Still, I wouldn't expect this to require anything more than a container to get working.

[smitty3268]

It has the ARM processor.

Do you know if commercial games build for Raspberry Pi will work on this computer?

We only have tree commercial games for Linux ARM:

- Airline Tycoon Deluxe
- Conquest of Elysium 3
- Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

Seems like it should be possible, although depending on how those games are packaged I wouldn't be surprised if it was necessary to add some library overrides or other little hacks like that in order to get it all working.

[discordian]

Anyone got an idea if and how Windows 32/64 bit games would run there, either on Qemu/Wine or some virtualization on MacOS?
Considering getting something-M2 in 1-2 years.