Fact that a person who was not previously driver developer can achieve this in a few weeks is pure wonder. No matter what tools are used.

Leave legal questions to Linux Foundation laywers or whoever is responsible to accept or not accept the patches.

If Apple actually wanted to prevent any of this from happening they can just lock bootloader. They not just gonna do it now because someone used fancy text generator to make working GPU driver.

Attacking a person who spent their personal time and money on making walled garden black box hardware more usable, more privacy friendly and further away from landfill is a crime against the future of humanity.

> The author was banned from Asahi Linux for hiding his extensive use of LLMs from us in another attempted contribution, and (more importantly) for concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development. Make of this what you will.

However, Asahi Linux has a strictly no-AI policy [1]. So this great work can't be upstreamed. I expect to see a bunch of AI-assisted forks that get things working smoothly on newer hardware to dominate as most people just care about getting stuff working, while only a handful of purists stick to the non-AI version running on ancient hardware.

[1] https://asahilinux.org/llm-policy/

There's also ongoing issues around Codex for this sort of thing, given Apple is suing OpenAI over stolen trade secrets[2]. And nobody knows whether training data in other models is similarly tainted.

[1]: https://codyho.dev/documents/cody_ho_resume.pdf

[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/10/apple-sue...

There plenty of us not working at Apple who can reuse the same approach for M5 and next generations of hardware.

I assume I’ll get used to it, but my mental model of what’s possible hasn’t been fully rewired yet.

AFAIK Nvidia drivers are proprietary and AMD has a tendency to drop support quickly

I'm surprised you worked with Niklas on this. I'd have assumed you'd think he was competent, given he went to Binghamton and not Stanford.

You could code for it now directly, instead of having to wrap a driver API. (There's also a few API bits missing on Metal today, that are present on Vulkan—and the the hardware can do it.)

Perhaps before Astra was nerfed. It is now the dumbest model right after Gemini. Sol still holds up.

Furthermore, given that Asahi Linux, the biggest game in town when it comes to running Linux on Apple silicon, is trying to be cleanroom, it is incredibly rude of you to not mention LLMs until after showing a page full of LLM-derived firmware ABI. This is a trap for anyone who's trying to be cleanroom.