Linux on Apple Silicon Macs hits important milestones

The Asahi Linux team has hit some important milestones in their efforts to make Linux work on Apple’s M-series chips is remarkable, but it’s nowhere near “ready to run” yet.
Apple’s current 5nm (N5P) M2 Max features 67 billion transistors, 400GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, and up to 96GB of fast, low-latency unified memory.
Kevin Purdy for Ars Technica:

It is true that upstream support for Apple’s M1 chips is present in 6.2 and that the 6.2 kernel will gradually make its way into many popular distributions, including Ubuntu and Fedora. Work on Apple’s integrated GPU by the four-person Asahi core team has come remarkably far. And founder Linus Torvalds himself is particularly eager to see Linux running on his favorite portable hardware, going so far as to issue a kernel in August 2022 from an M2 MacBook Air.
But the builders of the one Linux system that runs pretty well on Apple silicon are asking everybody to please just give it a moment.
“You will not be able to run Ubuntu nor any other standard distro with 6.2 on any M1 Mac. Please don’t get your hopes up,” the Asahi Linux team tweeted on Sunday morning. In a threaded reply, they added, “We are continuously upstreaming kernel features, and 6.2 notably adds device trees and basic boot support for M1 Pro/Max/Ultra machines. However, there is still a long road before upstream kernels are usable on laptops. There is no trackpad/keyboard support upstream yet.”

MacDailyNews Note: The Asahi Linux “Feature Support” document details currently supported features on all existing Apple Silicon Macs, as well as their upstream status.
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