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Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

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  1. SXX · · focus · HN ↗
    Dear fellow humans from "Hacker News". Hacking a driver that in itself documentation to black box Apple hardware is not any different from hacking $10 4G LTE modem.

    Fact that a person who was not previously driver developer can achieve this in a few weeks is pure wonder. No matter what tools are used.

    Leave legal questions to Linux Foundation laywers or whoever is responsible to accept or not accept the patches.

    If Apple actually wanted to prevent any of this from happening they can just lock bootloader. They not just gonna do it now because someone used fancy text generator to make working GPU driver.

    Attacking a person who spent their personal time and money on making walled garden black box hardware more usable, more privacy friendly and further away from landfill is a crime against the future of humanity.

    1. throw10920 · · focus · HN ↗
      > Dear fellow humans from "Hacker News".

      Please don't lump HN users together to attack them. This is "sneering at the community", which is explicitly forbidden in the guidelines:

      > Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

      If you have a specific comment to respond to, then respond to it.

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