:) I think we have a surprise in store here. Asahi don't have a monopoly over Linux for Apple Silicon, and upstream Linux absolutely does *NOT* ban LLMs.
replyi install proprietary modules for nvidia all the time, i'm not going to care if i have to do it for something else that i own
replyNvidia's kernel module is open source these days, it's the usermode stack that's still closed.
replyEven though the kernel module is open-source (sort of, development still happens behind closed doors), it's still an out-of-tree module, rather than being built into the kernel, which would give you as smooth an experience as with AMD or Intel, who's GPUs literally do just work on any distro with no fuss.
replyCan't wait for someone to point an LLM at that and "open it up" ;-)
replyAsahi's long term goal is to get everything possible merged into the (actually) upstream projects anyways so any distro can just work. It'd be nice to see that continue rather than have forks on forks for the sake of singular differences (and it looks like proper upstreaming is what they are going after per the Remaining Work section).
reply> upstream projects anyways so any distro can just work
replyThis may never end up working like that, considering how complicated installation is, comparatively speaking, and how macOS is still pretty much required to be installed.
You can make the Linux installation on Apple Sillicon Macs pretty painless nowadays. One terminal command on macOS, reboot to Linux, run one script - voila.
replyYeah, but it's unlikely such installers will be officially supported by the distributions, which was my point regarding upstreaming.
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replyI imagine either they or others can take their discoveries and write a real driver now, though. The hard part was always the reversing the black box system.
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