Asahi Linux Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs, But GPU and Sleep Still Lag
Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs – With Caveats
Asahi Linux developers have announced official support for Apple M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max Macs, bringing them to a state similar to M1 and M2 hardware. However, significant caveats remain: GPU acceleration is not yet performant or power-efficient, and sleep support is missing due to lack of DCP support, which also disables the HDMI port on M3 MacBooks. The Mac Studio M3 Ultra is excluded. Upstreaming of M3 support into the mainline Linux kernel is ongoing, with more patches expected in Linux 7.4+.
The biggest exception though is the GPU support, which they acknowledge is not yet performant or power efficient for 3D acceleration.
- shmoe
It is odd that Apple doesn't chip in here... they've originated so much decent stuff in the OSS space. Seems like a huge missed opportunity.
- publlus_enigma
The reason this amazing project exists is the same reason my current Mac will be my last Mac.
I wish the team every success.
- xiphias2
While the Ashahi engineers are working super hard reverse engineering the Apple Silicon, there has been a huge surge in Omarchy circles to get it all working with AI writing all the drivers and get all kinds of hardware in M4/M5 and later M6 working as well. It sped up a lot.
- sansah
Lack of sleep and HDMI support is real roadblock for adoption. Hope they gets past soon.
- jdeaton
This is really incredible work but so frustrating that its necessary
- tarruda
Amazing project.
My only blocker for installing Asahi on my Mac Studio (M1 ultra) is that llama.cpp performance is very bad when compared to using the Metal backend on the same hardware.
- mrheosuper
Thanks for the effort, guys. This makes me think, shouldn't the driver layer be generic now. All the driver does is writing correct data at correct address when needed, there is no need for OS support except triggering driver when to do that.
A true HAL, any OS can run on that HAL.
- whatever1
Why Apple does not at least provide the specs to the community? So much wasted effort when they can just share a pdf.
- simonebrunozzi
What would be the best way to dual boot MacOS and Asahi on a Macbook M2 ?
- benoau
Some big caveats but still amazing progress!