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This is Alyssa Rosenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver. (programming.dev)
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[โ€“] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 64 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Some missing links:

Alyssa Rosenzweig, GPU lead. Alyssa is a Linux graphics hacker. After reverse-engineering the Arm Mali GPUs and building the free Panfrost driver for them, she did the same magic trick on the Apple GPU and built the userspace Asahi graphics drivers.

- https://asahilinux.org/about/

[โ€“] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Thank you. This is the sort of news I need in my day.

Pretty flipping sweet if you asked me.