ADevWithAnIdea

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Gravity Linux Alpha Release: Linux on the M4 Mac Mini with GPU and DCP Support(gravitylinux.org)
12 points by ADevWithAnIdea 5d ago|0 comments
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by ADevWithAnIdea 9d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49736144
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by ADevWithAnIdea 9d ago
Claude Design, the only Anthropic product I genuinely like. I spent a LOT of time on those, so I'm glad you enjoyed them! I'm about the least artistic person you ever met in your life (everything in my life is very functional an
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by ADevWithAnIdea 9d ago
I'll add an addendum to the blog post at some point with a more detailed method because there is demand, but the tl;dr is: - boot macos under hypervisor (detailed guide in my part 1) into single user mode - write your own metal program
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
The friend I am referring to I met at Stanford around April of 2026 in a dorm event. We've spoken in person exactly once (I use "friend" loosely to describe anyone I've spoken to who I'm not on bad terms with) and a
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
I detail most of the development process in part 1: https://codyho.dev/blog/hypervisor-macbook-neo/ tl;dr you reboot the device with `macvdmtool`, you install m1n1 as the boot object, you talk to the m1n1 proxy ov
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
Right now I'm focusing specifically on the M4 Mac Mini and Neo, I just don't own any M4 Pro or Max hardware. My guess is that most of the drivers will just work on the other platforms, but we'll have to test.
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
> concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development This is false. I am a former Apple engineer. I did not conceal it (it's the top item of my resume and my Linked
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
TL;DR: 1. We want to guarantee our work is not a "derivative work" of anything Apple wrote. 2. If we look at any Apple binaries, there's no way prove that our code didn't borrow from Apple. 3. Since we didn't look a
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
Linking to another HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719480
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
For the kernel driver it's literally just: run the hypervisor, wait for the kick, save the UAT state, replay the whole thing, make sure the output pages change, then just follow the pointer to initdata until you've built the whole
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
Great observation, two things: - During my time at Apple I never saw any of the macOS source code, at all, even for userspace components. I had not even heard of things like SPTM. - I have not worked there since June 2025 I don't belie
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
Traditional hardware RE centers around heroics by a small number of very smart people, see: marcan, Alyssa Rosenzweig, Asahi Lina, etc. What they did is insanely impressive, and given how hard it was with LLMs I'm sure I would not pers
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
Can't disagree more, but my experiences are my own.
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
I still can't quite believe it either!
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by ADevWithAnIdea 10d ago
:) I think we have a surprise in store here. Asahi don't have a monopoly over Linux for Apple Silicon, and upstream Linux absolutely does *NOT* ban LLMs.
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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month(codyho.dev)
193 points by ADevWithAnIdea 11d ago|116 comments
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by ADevWithAnIdea 17d ago
Of this work? We're taking it all the way to shipping a distro with full hardware support on all released Macs and later to upstream Linux. We've taken significant care to respect Apple's copyright and publicly document all
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by ADevWithAnIdea 17d ago
We're available on Discord if you want to help with development! I know what has to be done to make wifi sing and don't think it'll take too long, Niklas already has the DCP covered (or at least all the non laptop bits). Ast
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I Came, I Prompted, I Left Part 1: Building a Hypervisor for the MacBook Neo(codyho.dev)
8 points by ADevWithAnIdea 17d ago|5 comments