Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features

HoneyKrisp as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon graphics and developed as part of the Asahi Linux project has landed a number of enhancements into the mainline Mesa code...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-HoneyKrisp-October

[Chol]

There will be a talk at XDC: https://indico.freedesktop.org/event...ributions/284/

[V1tol]

When Linux makes Macs better gaming platform than macOS

[elbar]

Windows NOT supported directly on non Intel/AMD/NVIDIA hardware as alternative for MacOS support when unavailable, so shame on you Apple hw engineer for M1/2/3/4 choice, blind choice it is... but Apple Experience deserve it back to 5% market share again as it is custom of capitalism... Asahi or not Asahi non-profits...

[alexenv]

Windows NOT supported directly on non Intel/AMD/NVIDIA hardware as alternative for MacOS support when unavailable, so shame on you Apple hw engineer for M1/2/3/4 choice, blind choice it is... but Apple Experience deserve it back to 5% market share again as it is custom of capitalism... Asahi or not Asahi non-profits...

Lol, "blind choice" just because it doesn't natively run Windows, ignoring all advantages it has over Intel. Mac users don't buy a Mac for Windows. It would be huge undertaking with little return of investment, common sense.

[OneTimeShot]

Windows NOT supported directly on non Intel/AMD/NVIDIA hardware as alternative for MacOS support when unavailable, so shame on you Apple hw engineer for M1/2/3/4 choice, blind choice it is... but Apple Experience deserve it back to 5% market share again as it is custom of capitalism... Asahi or not Asahi non-profits...

It's 100% up to Microsoft if they want Windows to run on Mac. What does Apple have to do with it?

[mdedetrich]

Windows NOT supported directly on non Intel/AMD/NVIDIA hardware as alternative for MacOS support when unavailable, so shame on you Apple hw engineer for M1/2/3/4 choice, blind choice it is... but Apple Experience deserve it back to 5% market share again as it is custom of capitalism... Asahi or not Asahi non-profits...

Thats Microsoft's fault, when they first made Windows on ARM they made an exclusive agreement with Qualcomm that forbid them to put Windows on ARM on any other device including Mac.

This agremeent only finished a few years ago but Microsoft hasn't put any effort into officially support Windows ARM on Mac. Nothing is stopping them from doing it, the bootloader for Apple Sillicon Macbook's is fully open, thats why you can run Asahi linux on it.

[Dukenukemx]

Soon enough Linux on Mac will have... Rack and Pinion steering. Four years from now and Asahi Linux might actually catch up to current AMD and Intel x86 Linux support. Wouldn't that be amazing for current Apple M3 owners to look forward to? If Apple users have any questions on what it's like, you can ask any x86 owner right now.

[Blzut3]

It's 100% up to Microsoft if they want Windows to run on Mac. What does Apple have to do with it?

Usually the hardware vendor is expected to write drivers for Windows so that would be Apple. Granted, given Asahi Linux already did the heavy lifting there I suppose nothing is stopping a third party from doing that. Not sure if Windows would run into any limitations with Apple's bootloader (Asahi's m1n1 provides some amount of UEFI support but not everything).

Regardless I wouldn't expect either side to put any effort into making Windows run on bare metal.

[ahrs]

It's 100% up to Microsoft if they want Windows to run on Mac. What does Apple have to do with it?

They need to write drivers just like they used to do with Boot Camp. Having tried that 10 years ago, the experience wasn't the best. The touchpad driver was awful and ejecting any Thunderbolt device made the Windows kernel panic (that one always made me laugh).

Some people need Windows support and they only realise after the fact they've gone out and bought a Mac. I don't use Macs anymore and haven't for quite sometime but sympathise with these people a little. I was young and stupid once, I wouldn't buy a Mac again.