Awesome Asahi progress update just posted by James, if you'd like to see what we've been up to recently! GPU stuff is SO fun and happy to answer any questions about it or anything M3. :)
asahilinux.org/2026/02/prog...
*M3 Apple Silicon
Linux is a free and open source operating system that is fully customisable and openly developed by a community. This does some of the work towards letting people who would like to run Linux on their Apple Silicon Mac devices do so!
Some of the work carries over to help M4 bring up, which someone else really awesome is working on! I believe they currently have Alpine Linux running with some early features like SMP (talking to other CPU cores) and putting the CPU in idle working.
Oh and internal NVMe
I'm actually really interested in GPU work, but we needed to do this early bring-up first. Currently I'm doing an early look into the GPU right now. :)
Internal display (though just a frame buffer, not DCP features yet), trackpad and keyboard are working, so not fully yet but enough to run a pretty functional OS. noopwafel actually just got WiFI working which is great! :)
Yes, should have clarified in the original post sorry! Hopefully GPU to come soon, still investigating that. I believed they changed the ISA so we have to modify our compiler, and I love compilers, so it should be fun! :)
On Apple M3, a Linux KDE plasma desktop under Fedora Asahi Remix is now WORKING! Super excited to share this update and happy to answer any questions! Co-credits to noopwafel and Shiz. :)
Just sent the Apple Silicon Power Supply driver I've been working hard on improving the last few days upstream to the main linux kernel, adding support for reading info about AC adapters and batteries, and modifying charge behaviour. Next upstreaming project is MTP! lore.kernel.org/asahi/202601...
It's just a CPU-rendered framebuffer, so not yet.
Thanks so much! :)
The menu page of the game "Doom" loaded on an Apple M3 Mac under Linux.
The bootup logs, including 11 tuxes at the top, of Linux on an Apple M3 Pro chipset.
Playing DOOM on Apple M3 under Linux. Have been working hard over the last month on Linux bringup for the M3 Mac line, currently working on SMC drivers. Making this Bluesky to share updates about my progress!
