[warricksothr]

Nope, this would be the open source driver for a the GPU inside the M1 chip, which has to be reverse engineered. But it’s great news for anyone hoping for Vulkan support on M1 based GPU cores!

For external graphics support we would at a minimum need an open source thunderbolt driver to expose the PCIe lanes to an external GPU and then we would need to recompile the open source GPU drivers against the Apple Silicon or ARM64 machine targets. The good news there is that the AMD open source driver is very performant, the bad news is that it’ll require machine specific patches as I believe it has some low level assembly in it.

I’m sure we’ll get there with time, especially with so many smart people working toward Linux on Apple Silicon chips.