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An Update on Apple M1/M2 GPU Drivers


update on Apple M1/M2 GPU drivers [LWN subscriber-only content] The kernel graphics driver for the Apple M1 and M2 GPUs is, rather famously, written in Rust, but it has achieved conformance with various graphics standards, which is also noteworthy. At the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) 2024, Alyssa Rosenzweig gave an update on the status of the driver, along with some news about the kinds of games it can support (YouTube video, slides).

At the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) 2024, Alyssa Rosenzweig gave an update on the status of the driver, along with some news about the kinds of games it can support ( YouTube video, slides). Updates and tessellation Last year at XDC, she and Asahi Lina reported that the driver had reached OpenGL ES 3.1 conformance. So, " this entire mess", consisting of FEX-Emu, Wine, DXVK, Honeykrisp, Steam, and the game, " we are going to throw that into a virtual machine, which is running a 4KB guest kernel".

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