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From Hector Martin, who's working on the project: "- This is with software rendering. Seriously, these CPUs are good. Better than some other ARM laptop GPUs.
by haxiomic 5y ago
From Hector Martin, who's working on the project:
"- This is with software rendering. Seriously, these CPUs are good. Better than some other ARM laptop GPUs.
- Notice how it picked the right keyboard layout automatically. This was not an accident nor was it based on the locale; it's based on the hardware. Details matter! :-)"
https://mobile.twitter.com/marcan42/status/1504629818645975040 https://mobile.twitter.com/marcan42/status/15046298186459750...
- rvz 5y ago> "- This is with software rendering. Seriously, these CPUs are good. Better than some other ARM laptop GPUs. Exactly. I can only guess it will be even better if the graphics was accelerated, even faster if it was on the Mac Studio. It is still fine. We'll see. As soon as they have a user friendly macOS installer or live USB-C installer then that will be an easy install path or try it out for many. Overall, great progress!
- marcan_42 5y agoThe installer is done, you just curl|sh from macOS and follow the prompts :-)
- d3nj4l 5y agoThank you for all your work! It's been great watching you stream through some of the problems you solved for asahi :)
- marcalc 5y agoAmazing stuff. Can't wait to try it out. Can it dual boot with my current macos install?
- pthariensflame 5y agoYes, it can; it's intended to!
- BeefWellington 5y ago> "- This is with software rendering. Seriously, these CPUs are good. Better than some other ARM laptop GPUs. I would take this more as an indictment of ARM laptops rather than any "software rendering is magically fast" statement here. Modern Linuxes on most recent-ish (<5 years old) x86-64 CPUs can quite easily software render at the same speed and quality as that demonstration. This is a stronger statement of how far the project has come in terms of making everything operate smoothly on the M1, which is excellent (it's been what, a year?). My prediction: AsahiLinux will start becoming the Linux benchmark king in terms of "out of the box" performance, mostly due to the console effect that Apple's M1s offer them. There's such a limited set of hardware to target they will be able to focus more on stability and performance than other distributions.
- grishka 5y agoThe M1 is really a beast though. I got an M1 Max in December, and the only times I've seen the beachball cursor it was due to an app doing something heavy on the UI thread. It also compiles Java so fast that milliseconds in gradle output are actually useful. Oh and it's able to play 4K 60 fps videos smoothly without even turning on the fans. This is truly madness. x86 is dead to me at this point. But then maybe anything is fast after using a 2012 retina MBP for almost 10 years.
- exdsq 5y agoI had a 16-core desktop and moved to the M1 Max and am just as happy - nothing kills it. PostgreSQL docker containers, intensive CPU scripts running, maybe a Minikube cluster, Slack, Chrome, RStudio, and I can still watch 4k video. It's awesome.
- ben-schaaf 5y agoHardware decoding even at 8k is very common, intel has had 4k VP9 hardware decoders since 2016. Comparing the i7-3520M to something modern like an AMD 5800U the modern chip has ~2x single and ~4x multi-core performance, about the same compared to a M1 MB Air. Compared to 2012 they're all in the same ballpark.
- nyanpasu64 5y agoHahaha... Plasma in software rendering... Is this X11 or Wayland? I have some horror stories: on non-unified memory architectures, KWin Wayland with QPainter rendering slows to a crawl on alt-tab, because Qt is trying to CPU-render to GPU-owned memory over the PCIe bus (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447383 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447383).
- nyanpasu64 5y agoEDIT: It's X11 (kwin_x11), but the Display Configuration panel's "only one resolution" message claims it's Plasma Wayland.
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