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"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver


While the Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver for OpenGL support with Apple Silicon on Linux has been maturing nicely and is quite capable these days, the Vulkan support hasn't been coming together as quick or for as long

Interestingly, Honeykrisp started out as a fork of the open-source Mesa NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver. The Honeykrisp Vulkan driver for Apple hardware isn't yet upstreamed to Mesa but for now can be found via Alyssa's development tree. Eventually the hope is to get to the point of being able to enjoy nice Windows games on Apple Silicon using Wine / Steam Play and an x86 emulator.About The AuthorMichael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience.

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