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DRM User-Space API For Apple Silicon Graphics Posted For Review

While the Asahi AGX Gallium3D and Honeykrisp Vulkan drivers continue to be developed within mainline Mesa for supporting OpenGL and Vulkan with Apple Silicon M1/M2 SoCs, the necessary Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver has yet to be upstreamed

Alyssa Rosenzweig posted the patch today to the mailing list for the proposed user-space API for the Asahi kernel driver: The actual driver isn't yet posted for review due to a number of Rust abstractions still taking a while to be upstreamed:"This patch adds the standalone UAPI header. However, as a production graphics driver, it depends on a significant number of Rust abstractions that will take a long time to upstream.

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