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thrwy19940314on Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

At least according to your own accounts on the Asahi IRC rooms, you were very aware of SPTM (which is part of the AS platform) and knew the people working on it: https://oftc.catirclogs.org/asahi-dev/2026-06-04#35383763

thrwy19940314on Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

At least according to your own accounts on the Asahi IRC rooms, you were very aware of SPTM (which is part of the AS platform) and knew the people working on it: https://oftc.catirclogs.org/asahi-dev/2026-06-04#35383763

thrwy19940314on Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

All this work is tainted since the poster is ex-Apple[1]. There is no way Linux will take that code, since people from Apple also contribute to Linux and this creates a major conflict.

There's also ongoing issues around Codex for this sort of thing, given Apple is suing OpenAI over stolen trade secrets[2]. And nobody knows whether training data in other models is similarly tainted.

[1]: https://codyho.dev/documents/cody_ho_resume.pdf

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/10/apple-sue...