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- MoltenMonsterhttps://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/1whecn1/comment...> The author was banned from Asahi Linux for hiding his extensive use of LLMs from us in another attempted contribution, and (more importantly) for concealing that he is a former Apple engineer with direct contacts to the people involved in Apple Silicon development. Make of this what you will.
- thrwy19940314All this work is tainted since the poster is ex-Apple[1]. There is no way Linux will take that code, since people from Apple also contribute to Linux and this creates a major conflict.There's also ongoing issues around Codex for this sort of thing, given Apple is suing OpenAI over stolen trade secrets[2]. And nobody knows whether training data in other models is similarly tainted.[1]: https://codyho.dev/documents/cody_ho_resume.pdf[2]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/10/apple-sue...
- ndiddyIt's extremely impressive that they were able to make a working driver so quickly. I think this is one of the best use cases for LLMs. You don't need someone to spend years reverse engineering undocumented hardware anymore. It will interesting to see how good the driver the LLMs came up with is, and whether it can be upstreamed into the Linux kernel.
- porphyraThis is super great. The biggest pain point of Asahi Linux is how it doesn't have GPU acceleration on M3 and newer, especially now that M6 is out!However, Asahi Linux has a strictly no-AI policy [1]. So this great work can't be upstreamed. I expect to see a bunch of AI-assisted forks that get things working smoothly on newer hardware to dominate as most people just care about getting stuff working, while only a handful of purists stick to the non-AI version running on ancient hardware.[1] https://asahilinux.org/llm-policy/
- SXXTo the developer: it doesnt matter whatever you can upstream it or not. Just share the code and documentation of how this process can be reproduced.There plenty of us not working at Apple who can reuse the same approach for M5 and next generations of hardware.
- AgingcoderMaybe I’m getting really old, and I know we live in changing times but the fact this works at all is insane, as in black magic insane.I assume I’ll get used to it, but my mental model of what’s possible hasn’t been fully rewired yet.
- cromkaAuthor, do TouchID next.
- AKSF_AckermannI am not by any means a copyright lawyer, so can anyone enlighten me on if it is a good idea for upstream projects to accept such kind of code from an ex-Apple employee, especially since Apple is currently suing OpenAI.
- sscarduzio/goal have all this upstreamed to Linux
- GeekyBearFiguring out how the hardware works and how to interface with it to submit work is a significant step all by itself.
- carterschonwaldim pretty literate in intellectual property, but im pretty confused about the no looking at binary code artifacts bit.
- xystSo this is specific _only_ to M4 Mac Mini and Neo? Or will this work on any M4 SoC such as M4 Max?
- kmeisthaxClean room is not 100% legally necessary for RE, but I would never touch an LLM to do RE work when there's even a chance the models have been trained on the thing I ultimately plan to reimplement.Furthermore, given that Asahi Linux, the biggest game in town when it comes to running Linux on Apple silicon, is trying to be cleanroom, it is incredibly rude of you to not mention LLMs until after showing a page full of LLM-derived firmware ABI. This is a trap for anyone who's trying to be cleanroom.
- ReshamJoshi[dead]
- varispeed> GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol are absolutely insanePerhaps before Astra was nerfed. It is now the dumbest model right after Gemini. Sol still holds up.