LWN: Comments on "An update on Apple M1/M2 GPU drivers"

I find it a little disturbing . . .

Lonjil — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 22:27:27 +0000

But the presenter is Alyssa Rosenzweig, not Lina.

I find it a little disturbing . . .

Lennie — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 11:41:53 +0000

I assumed the name of Lina came first, but I guess not.

Very impressive

atnot — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:20:25 +0000

> I admit to some curiosity: why the witch hat?

You're a mysterious woman spending your days in a dim room doing mystical incantations with strange hardware people don't understand but are very impressed by, opening the news to see a new satanic panic, riots, hate crimes and politicians trying to ban your existence. You may as well get the fun hat to go with it.

Very impressive

indrora — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 02:47:28 +0000

She has a long history of committing source wizardry on GPU drivers. We have a libre Mali-T860 driver because of her.

in/re the hat... *snrk* he doesn't know about the witch hats (/s)

To quote her Mastodon profile: "Princesse-sorcière de Linux qui respecte la politique de l'OQLF" -- I'll let you put the parts together. A surprising number of kernel hackers working on fringe hardware (or just... different stuff) are trans folk and a *lot* of them are of the witchy persuasion.

I find it a little disturbing . . .

lockecole2 — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 00:05:59 +0000

Thought it was Hector Marcan who founded it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210217130206/https://asahil...

I find it a little disturbing . . .

himi — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 22:19:32 +0000

Yeah, that's one of the things that makes me hopeful - there are so few women in this industry, and even fewer in the open source/free software subset, having young women out there doing exciting things and having fun with it is great to see.

I find it a little disturbing . . .

Lennie — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:02:46 +0000

And on a side note, they are women, the presenter of this talk but also the person who started Asahi Linux.

Very impressive

Paf — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:35:56 +0000

It is very close to Halloween, so I assume that’s *part* of the reason

Very impressive

Wol — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 10:59:03 +0000

Where's the BUNCH?

Cheers,
Wol

Very impressive

ballombe — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:12:09 +0000

witch + apple is calling for seven dwarves.

libkrun

pbonzini — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:08:32 +0000

Shout out to the libkrun project, which is used to run the lightweight VMs with 4K pages. :)

Very impressive

flewellyn — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 04:29:05 +0000

The combination of brilliance, madness, and willingness to commit coding atrocities necessary to make this work is quite something! Ms Rosenzweig has done some fantastic work. A shame Apple didn't make things a lot easier, though.

I admit to some curiosity: why the witch hat? Has Ms Rosenzweig ever explained this?

I find it a little disturbing . . .

himi — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:13:39 +0000

. . . that she's apparently ~22 and doing world-beating stuff like this . . .

It's always amazing seeing kids doing this sort of thing. I'm old enough to remember seeing Rasterman making everyone else feel old back in the day (even though I'm a few years younger than him, he still made me feel old) - it's nice to see that in this aspect at least, the world of 2024 is as exciting and hopeful as the world of 1999.

Fun and impressive

Paf — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:49:02 +0000

“ "when I am not committing Mesa crimes, I am committing FEX-Emulation crimes"”

Hah!

From the outside, this looks really impressive, and it’s presented with great style.

Great !

matp75 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:59:10 +0000

Whoah ! This looks crazy and huge huge work even if I am far away from understanding it all !

Very nice!

titaniumtown — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:59:04 +0000

Alyssa Rosenzweig is very cool. I watched her talk and it was fascinating and I loved how she presented. I'm following her work very closely, very impressive!