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> Judging by Asahi, FOSS will be fine. Or rather: based on the results of other contemporary complex hardware RE efforts, Asahi will never be relevant. Think o
by AshamedCaptain 4y ago
> Judging by Asahi, FOSS will be fine.
Or rather: based on the results of other contemporary complex hardware RE efforts, Asahi will never be relevant. Think of _how many GPU hardware_ there have been efforts to RE, and how few have produced any drivers that people would be happy to use on a daily basis. How many people use Nouveau these days? PowerVR SGX (a "GNU high priority project" from a decade ago!)? Lima? Even Panfrost?
In fact, this entire IPU webcam thing is not new. We've had hardware with IPU for at least half a decade and literally _NO_ such device works with Linux, only a couple devices half-work, and very poorly at that.
There are much fewer people working on hardware support on Linux that you may think.