Asahi Linux Progress Report for Linux 6.17
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The Asahi Linux project reports on its progress towards supporting Linux 6.17 on Apple Silicon hardware, with the community showing interest and support for the project's advancements.
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Anyway, keep up the good work. I am currently bashing out some bare-metal Zig and assembly for PinePhone, so I get a small taste for the challenges you face, although I have some documentation. How you manage without that I have no idea, incredible work!
One thing I have been wondering is that with your approach, is it possible to run a Asahi VM inside Asahi? It would be really nice to be able to have sandboxes for all these misbehaving modern apps like browsers etc. I got the impression from earlier posts (is it muvm doing this?), that things like the GPU pass-though dont affect performance much, so it sounds like a sandbox VM approach could be very performant and powerful. Indeed, these days I run run every 3rd party app in a sandbox if possible.