Lina: Tales of the M1 GPU

Asahi Lina gives a detailedupdate on progress toward a graphics driver for Apple M1 hardware.

There is still a long road ahead! The UAPI that we are using rightnow is still a prototype, and there are a lot of new features thatneed to be added or redesigned in order to support a full Vulkandriver in the future. Since Linux mandates that the UAPI needs toremain stable and backwards compatible across versions (unlikemacOS), that means that the kernel driver will not be headingupstream for many months, until we have a more completeunderstanding of the GPU rendering parameters and have implementedall the new design features needed by Vulkan.