bytepursuits@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours agoThis is Alyssa Resenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver.programming.devimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1739cross-posted to: linux@sh.itjust.works
arrow-up1739imageThis is Alyssa Resenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver.programming.devbytepursuits@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 hours agomessage-square80fedilinkcross-posted to: linux@sh.itjust.works
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up63·3 hours agoI mean I have decades of doing all sorts of IT work and this is way beyond my level. Absolutely amazing.
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 hour agoYou mean you can’t just get Apple’s driver to work on Linux by turning it off and on again enough times?
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·40 minutes agoor even by recompiling the kernel when apples driver is not part of it.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·3 hours agoI have such immense respect for people who know how the bits are physically flowing through a machine. I took classes about it but I can’t imagine doing that daily, it’s so tedious.
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 hour agoAnd imagine doing it without expecting a cent!
minus-squaresunbeam60@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·48 minutes agoIt’s the challenge of it though.
minus-squareedwardbear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·26 minutes agothaaaaat’s the shit, when it finally cracks and you laser focus on implementing your solution. better than drugs.
minus-squareHubertManne@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 hours agoyeah I remember not being able to get my voltron lion to run in basic when I was in junior high.
I mean I have decades of doing all sorts of IT work and this is way beyond my level. Absolutely amazing.
You mean you can’t just get Apple’s driver to work on Linux by turning it off and on again enough times?
or even by recompiling the kernel when apples driver is not part of it.
I have such immense respect for people who know how the bits are physically flowing through a machine. I took classes about it but I can’t imagine doing that daily, it’s so tedious.
And imagine doing it without expecting a cent!
It’s the challenge of it though.
thaaaaat’s the shit, when it finally cracks and you laser focus on implementing your solution. better than drugs.
yeah I remember not being able to get my voltron lion to run in basic when I was in junior high.