Asahi Linux has released its first alpha Apple GPU driver, bringing OpenGL 2.1 and OpenGL ES 2.0 support to all Apple M-series systems. The driver enables hardware-accelerated desktop environments like GNOME and KDE, and can run older 3D games at 60fps at 4K. It is built on top of Mesa and Gallium3D, with a custom NIR compiler backend and a Linux DRM kernel driver. Installation requires the linux-asahi-edge kernel and mesa-asahi-edge packages on Arch Linux ARM. Vulkan support is in progress, with much of the OpenGL work being reused. OpenGL ES 3 features are also under active development. The driver is still alpha and has not passed conformance tests.
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