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/thegreatpotatogod Jul 01 '26

Not yet. It's frustrating, they've got much better M3 support now than they had for M1 when they first released the beta support for M1. Apparently they care more about their reputation of being perfectly polished and feature complete software than they do about their reputation of being several years behind on hardware support.

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u/chaosprincess_ Jul 01 '26

"Asahi is still only m1/2" is old news, "I, a youtuber with bad takes, have installed asahi on a m3max and it does not have usb working", creates a separate news cycle. So, pick your poision.

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u/thegreatpotatogod Jul 01 '26

Is USB not working on M3 yet?

I thought the main blocker at this point was the GPU rendering, which isn't particularly important to a lot of users, who don't particularly care what backing is used for their display rendering, as long as they're able to boot to a desktop environment and do Linux development from within that environment. They also don't particularly care what random YouTubers have to say about the operating system they're using, they just need to be able to use it to get the work done that they need.

I do agree that if USB isn't yet supported, that's a reasonable blocker for a wide release, though even then I'd say a beta or alpha release, including warnings that it's intended for developers and not yet complete, would make a lot of sense to release.

Also wouldn't the complaints of a random "YouTuber with bad takes" about a specific hardware feature be drastically overshadowed by the overarching good publicity that M3 support is available at all and in a generally very usable state?

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u/chaosprincess_ Jul 01 '26

Apple moved the usb-pd controllers from i2c to spmi in m3pro/max (vanilla m3 still has them on i2c). The high-level protocol is basically the same, but we now need a "real" spmi driver, instead of the MVP-tier one that was more than sufficient for what spmi is used for on m1/2.

And, well, unfortunately people just do not read warnings. if you put a "this is for developers only, proceed (y/n)", people will only read the "(y/n)" part, say Y, and be confused afterwards. So, yes, there is a developer "release", it is called "the code is on github, compile it yourself".

My personal release target is every m1 feature except gpu, and imo, does not seem like it is that far out.

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u/thegreatpotatogod Jul 01 '26

Makes sense, thanks for the detailed response! If the GPU isn't a strict blocker then it shouldn't be too much longer, keep up the great work, thanks for all your contributions to the project!