The first conformant M1 GPU driver for Linux

[senttoschool]

Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application. Interested? Just install Linux!

For existing Asahi Linux users, upgrade your system with dnf upgrade (Fedora) or pacman -Syu (Arch) for the latest drivers.

Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.

To become conformant, an “implementation” must pass the official conformance test suite, designed to verify every feature in the specification. The test results are submitted to Khronos, the standards body. After a 30-day review period, if no issues are found, the implementation becomes conformant. The Khronos website lists all conformant implementations, including our drivers for the M1, M1 Pro/Max/Ultra, M2, and M2 Pro/Max.

Today’s milestone isn’t just about OpenGL ES. We’re releasing the first conformant implementation of any graphics standard for the M1. And we don’t plan to stop here ;-)

The first conformant M1 GPU driver

Quite big news for Asahi Linux. I wonder if this means we will soon be able to play games on Linux via Valve's Proton. Note that Alyssa (her resume) worked on this and she now works for Valve's Proton.

It will be interesting to test the performance of M1/M2 GPUs on Linux.

Long discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37224042

 

[altaic]

Note that Alyssa (her resume) worked on this and she now works for Valve's Proton.

Interesting; didn’t know that. From her resume, “Valve (May 2023 - Present; contractor): Develop upstream graphics drivers to improve Linux gaming.” I wonder if we’ll see AMD GPU driver support in Asahi at some point soon.

 

[leman]

Interesting; didn’t know that. From her resume, “Valve (May 2023 - Present; contractor): Develop upstream graphics drivers to improve Linux gaming.” I wonder if we’ll see AMD GPU driver support in Asahi at some point soon.

They already satiated that M1 doesn’t support memory mapping modes the AMD driver relies on, so unless someone rewrites the AMD driver specifically for Apple Silicon it’s rather unlikely.