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Apple SMC Driver Merged For Linux 6.17 To Be Able To Reboot Macs
The Apple System Management Controller (SMC) driver was successfully merged this week into Linux 6.17 for being able to reboot modern Apple M1 / M2 Macs under Linux (the Apple M3 / M4 Linux support remains in development)
As covered in the aforelinked article, the Apple System Management Controller exposes temperature sensors, voltage/power meters, and is also responsible for shutdown/reboot handling. The good news is that the Apple SMC driver was successfully merged via the GPIO feature pull for Linux 6.17. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software.
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