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by pbasista 1400 days ago
> Am I remembering something else here?

No. That has indeed happened. It was a work by Alyssa Rosenzweig [0].

If I understand correctly, she implemented the userspace Mesa driver. The kernel driver is being developed by Asahi Lina. Together, they are meant to provide "full open source graphics stack for 3D acceleration on Asahi Linux" [1].

[0] https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-5.html

[1] https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-6.html

Edit: make the quote more accurate, adjust formatting