[marcan_42]

> My ThinkPad X1E has horrible battery life under Linux

I ran the M1 Pro for a whole day during early testing without charging (because we hadn't initialized the USB-C port yet) and didn't even run out of battery. And I didn't even have the power management driver running yet.

> has a boatload of issues with thunderbolt

We'll see how that goes, but I get the feeling Apple's Thunderbolt controllers are going to be a lot less insane than Intel's...

> HDMI port

That's just a DP-HDMI converter and whatever needs managing is managed by DCP firmware; it'll work once DP works.

> audio

WIP, already working on some machines; we just need to write a couple codec drivers to get it working across the board.

> WiFi

That's my TODO for this week, and I have it all planned out already :-)

> when my Thinkpad goes standby with an external monitor attached via TB, some ACPI interrupt goes insane and starts burning 100% CPU resources.

Good thing these machines don't have ACPI then! :-)

> USB ports regularly don't work after stand-by.

We actually already have a workaround in Linux for USB lockups that affect macOS on these machines, so we're already doing better on that front.

> BMC support seems problematic as well, my battery status is often 'unknown' with the Lenovo ACPI kernel modules.

That goes via SMC on these machines, which has a very simple interface. That's my TODO right after WiFi :-)

> And this is even with 'official' support from Lenovo for Linux.

Turns out "official" support sometimes is horrible... we can do better than that.

> I can only imagine how bad the experience will be for running Linux on Apple products for the coming years.

Some people are already using them as their daily driver; I don't see it taking more than another year to be in a very good place.

[LeonM]

Hi Marcan! Amazing to get a response from the man himself :) This is why I love HN.

Please don't take my post too cynical, I understand how much work has already gone into getting this far, but also how hard it is to get the last 1% functionality working 'just right'. So, I am just trying to tame expectations here :-)

Thanks for the great work! I enjoyed reading the progress reports, and watching the Youtube live streams on the bring-up.

[marcan_42]

Keep in mind that "the last 1%" does not mean "horrible pain points". Will we ever get the last 1% of functionality running? Probably not; there's certainly stuff in these machines that nobody will care about enough to be worth making work (there's also stuff we already support that macOS doesn't yet, so it goes both ways!). But our goal isn't to make 100% of the features of the hardware work; it is to make all the features people expect to work work, and make them stable. We can't do everything - e.g. proper notch support depends on, well, downstream projects supporting that - but we can make it a good experience (e.g. by excluding the strip of screen containing the notch by default).

Will there be bugs? Absolutely. But hey, that's why I'm here, isn't it? Report away, I'll get it fixed :-)

[tcmart14]

Love the work! One request though, could future progress reports include a little bit about the work being done for OpenBSD also? I know there is someone on the team who is working on the porting effort to Linux, but is also working on OpenBSD concurrently. Thank you!

[marcan_42]

Request noted! I'll try to loop in Kettenis to write a section for the next one :)

[tcmart14]

Thanks! I would be really interested in knowing how Asahi Linux is not only benefiting the Linux ecosystem, but the broader FOSS ecosystem!

[hbbio]

Your work, and even your answers here are really awesome. We can feel your passion for the project: the M1s are fantastic hardware and you and the Asahi team will enable all of us to tweak them as we wish.

Just joined the Patreon and hope many others will do it too!