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And what's the ETA for M5 support?

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It's funny that this exact question is mentioned in marcan's "I'm leaving Asahi Linux" blogpost, haha.

> And, of course, “When is M3/M4 support coming?”

https://marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as-asahi-linux-project-l...

It's just amusing to me that Linux users since the beginning of time have been working hard on ensuring the maintainers of their software get upset at them and quit working on their software.

Over decades of seeing this, it is entertaining that people never change. There will be a great beauty to the vim v emacs wars in 5723 CE between the people of Gliese 251b and Gliese 251c.

To be clear, I would not ordinarily ask these kinds of questions. I understand that things take time. That's why I'm resigned to the idea that Asahi will never again be roughly up to date with the latest Apple hardware. I only asked this question because hanikesn seems to think that Asahi will magically suddenly be up to date once they've upstreamed everything.

Would I be correct in thinking that once M3 is up and running, M4 (and M5?) - the basics at least - should be relatively easy due to architectural similarities? In the same way that M2 was relatively easy because it was quite similar to the M1?

No. One major obstacle with M4 support is SPTM.

M5 has major GPU changes again so that is even more ways off.

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