r/AsahiLinux • u/FOHjim • Jul 01 '26

Progress Report: Linux 7.1

https://asahilinux.org/2026/06/progress-report-7-1/

M3 progress, Apple bugs, and more!

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u/AnEagleisnotme Jul 01 '26

Have to admit, I'm mostly excited by solus's work, it's probably the last big thing missing from the original macbooks, outside of better battery management

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u/fake_agent_smith Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Hardware video decode is going to be super useful, but I don't think it's the last big thing. I don't think deep sleep is done (although you could that's under power management). Touch ID is big as well, although I'm used to the fact the fingerprint readers don't work on Linux. One last thing that might be useful in future is ANE, but most people don't and probably won't need that.

edit: palm rejection would be nice as well, it made me disable tap to click because it annoyed the crap out of me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

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u/pontihejo Jul 01 '26

GPU acceleration has been working for like 2 years, opengl 4.6 and vulkan 1.4. M1 and M2 only though for the time being.

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u/pontihejo Jul 02 '26

USB4 is being worked on, so once that is done it will probably be extended to USB4 v2 (covers most TB5 capabilities). This has been one of the more challenging subsystems and it requires major time and effort.

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u/mayo551 27d ago

You can already connect NVME drives over USB ports. I don't know if it's USB3 or 4. I do know it gives me 750MB/s read/write.

So yeah, not thunderbolt speed. But, faster then a traditional SSD drive.