Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
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Alyssa Rosenzweig ☛ Rosenzweig – Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1
For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers.
Already installed? Just dnf upgrade --refresh.
Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our open source Linux drivers are conformant to the latest OpenGL versions, finally promising broad compatibility with modern OpenGL workloads, like Blender, Ryujinx, and Citra.
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Ars Technica ☛ Asahi Linux project’s OpenGL support on Apple Silicon officially surpasses Apple’s
For around three years now, the team of independent developers behind the Asahi Linux project has worked to support Linux on Apple Silicon Macs, despite Apple's total lack of involvement. Over the years, the project has gone from a "highly unstable experiment" to a "surprisingly functional and usable desktop operating system." Even Linus Torvalds has used it to run Linux on Apple's hardware.
The team has been steadily improving its open source, standards-conformant GPU driver for the M1 and M2 since releasing them in December 2022, and today, the team crossed an important symbolic milestone: The Asahi driver's support for the OpenGL and OpenGL ES graphics have officially passed what Apple offers in macOS. The team's latest graphics driver fully conforms with OpenGL version 4.6 and OpenGL ES version 3.2, the most recent version of either API. Apple's support in macOS tops out at OpenGL 4.1, announced in July 2010.
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Asahi Linux conformant to OpenGL 4.6 & OpenGL ES 3.2 on Apple Silicon Macs
The Asahi Linux project for Apple Silicon Macs has just become conformant to OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2, surpassing Apple's current support.
Apple moved away from OpenGL support after it began to focus on its proprietary Metal graphics API. That means since macOS Mavericks in 2013, Apple has been conformant with OpenGL 4.1 even though it officially deprecated support for the standard in 2018.
The Asahi Linux project announced a new milestone was met with its work on conformant GPU drivers. After releasing an OpenGL ES 3.1 conformant driver in August 2022, the project has now surpassed Apple's implementation by being conformant with OpenGL ES 3.1 and OpenGL 4.6.
Liam Dawe:
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Apple M1 gets OpenGL 4.6 and OpenGL ES 3.2 support on Linux
Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig announced in a blog post that support for the Apple M1 has been improved, with the latest updates bringing full conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1. This includes OpenGL ES 3.2 support too, bumping it up from OpenGL 4.1.
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Asahi Linux’s OpenGL support leapfrogs Apple’s on M-chip Macs
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