Open Linux-Dright developer for GPU Apple AGX reported about the implementation of support of the Apple M2 chips and about successful launching on Apple Macbook AIR with a chip of M2 user environment KDE and GNOME with full support for accelerating the GPU forces. As an example of OpenGL support, the Xonotic game is shown on the M2, at the same time with the GLMARK2 and EGLGEARS tests. When testing the power consumption of the battery charge, the MacBook Air was enough for 8 hours of the continuous Xonotic game in 60fps.
It is also noted that the m2 DRM drive (Direct Rendering Manager) for the Linux nucleus can now work with an Opengl-drivers developed for Mesa Asahi from the box without making changes in the user space. The development of drivers for Linux complicates the fact that the Apple M1/M2 chips use its own GPU, designed in Apple, which performs closed firmware and uses rather complex joint data used. There is no technical documentation for GPU and in the development of independent drivers, reverse engineering from MacOS is used.
In the meantime, the developers of the project asahi aimed at porting Linux for working on computers of the MAC, equipped with ARM chips developed by Apple, prepared November distribution renewal ( 590 MB and 3.4 GB ) and published a report on the achieved level of development of the project. ASAHI Linux is based on the ARCH Linux package base, includes a traditional set of programs and comes with the KDE Plasma desktop. The distribution is built using the standard Arch Linux repositories, and all specific changes, such as the core, installer, bootloader, auxiliary scripts and environment settings, are made in Separate repository .
The recent support of USB3 support is noted (previously Thunderbolt ports were used only in USB2), continued work on supporting the loudspeakers built into the MacBook and the headphone jet support, adding support control, improving power control, adding a regular staff installer INSTALLATION OPLOSS on devices with chip M2 (without switching to expert mode).