Progress Report: Linux 7.3 - Asahi Linux
71 points by signal-11
71 points by signal-11
Good to see the progress, and great to see them calling out the behaviour of the companies producing oss software laundering tools used for vibe coding.
I am sick of seeing people presenting vibe code as something they created rather than something generated by the unacknowledged theft of oss code. Anything that makes that theft harder is an improvement, and license changes that make it much harder to pretend such theft is still conforming to the original license is a good change.
These people are heroes! But I’m only waiting for USB-C display support on my M1 Pro to be able to use Asahi with my setup 🥲
We have USB-C display support on the "fairydust" development branch.
It's still a little rough around the edges, which is why we're not yet comfortable releasing it to end-users. In particular, only a single "blessed" type-C port supports display with that branch - what's missing is proper/dynamic crossbar support to route N external display controllers to M ports where N < M. Relatedly, these devices have limits on the number of external monitors even on macOS: there aren't enough display controllers to drive monitors on all ports simultaneously!
But for those adventurous enough, the kernel tree is there. Personally I use it with my M1 Air, no complaints here :-)
That’s cool! I think I’ll wait for an official release though. Last time I’ve used a custom Linux kernel it was 2.4 I think, so I may be a bit rusty 😅
Not sure if this helps any (is the M1 different than the M1 Pro in this regard?) but I saw this repo the other day and it's talking about an approach that apparently works for the M1 and M2 Air: https://github.com/subedijaidip/dp-altmode-t8112
This looks like some packaging of the upstream in-development branch, see my reply to the sibling comment.
Interestingly the font on Firefox on a 1080p display looks pretty bad, like I have problems reading it as it's so thing. Dragging it over to the 4k screen it's totally fine.