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Conformant OpenGL® ES 3.1 drivers are now available for M1- and M2-family GPUs. That means the drivers are compatible with any OpenGL ES 3.1 application.

Our reverse-engineered, free and open source graphics drivers are the world’s only conformant OpenGL ES 3.1 implementation for M1- and M2-family graphics hardware. That means our driver passed tens of thousands of tests to demonstrate correctness and is now recognized by the industry.

Why did we pursue standards conformance when the manufacturer did not? Above all, our commitment to quality. We want our users to know that they can depend on our Linux drivers. We want standard software to run without M1-specific hacks or porting.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An amazing accomplishment and a real feather in the cap for Rust.

When are we going to see this incorporated into the mainline kernel?

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 13 points 1 year ago

Traces of the Rust work gets merged in every version. They come in small pieces, and now the next version has even more abstractions that are needed for the M1 GPU driver to eventually get there.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How long til apple grabs that source and repacks it into one of their closed, proprietary drivers?

[–] Zamundaaa@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 year ago

Why would they do that? They're intentionally not supporting OpenGL, so that people use their proprietary API

[–] winety 1 points 1 year ago

Well, Mesa is licensed under the MIT license¹, which is not copyleft, so Apple is free to do so.

¹No license is mentioned in the repository of the driver, so I assume it's under the same license.

[–] NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fi 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Apple beat by 2 people.

2 women, none the less :)

[–] JonnyRobbie@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

why did you feel the need to highlight they were women? It feels like you’re implying women are worse at programming, devaluing their effort.

[–] NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fi 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh, no, because women are underrepresented in the software industry and there's a clear bias against non-males in this area. Only 5% of developers identify as female[1].

I only meant to celebrate diversity, and give a fuck you to this techbro society. I hope more non-males tune in to Asahi Lina's livestreams and realize to not give up an interest in programming because of their gender.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1126823/worldwide-developer-gender/

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 14 points 1 year ago

Exactly this. And it shows a good example for other underrepresented genders that there are others too in the field and they are absolutely amazing; seriously in the top 1% of the devs.

[–] WillyWonksters@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Women will have the same privileges than men when society stops treating women as an excluded, incapacitated minority."

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