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		pdpi on Sept 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1 They do, demonstrably, have some sort of say. The M1 Macs have had deliberate support for 3rd party OSes since more or less day 1 (just not exposed/advertised), and Apple made some early changes to enable Asahi. Some recent comments by marcan on the topic: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1554395184473190400

amelius on Sept 30, 2022 [–]

I don't see engineers having a say here. Instead, I see a lot of praying, begging and hoping in that thread.

saagarjha on Oct 1, 2022 | [–]

What do you want, engineers explicitly coming out and saying they designed the system to make this possible? Oh wait, they did.

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