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This is Alyssa Resenzweig. She reverse-engineered Apple's M1 GPU with no public documentation and also developed an open-source Linux driver. (infosec.pub)
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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

In case you don't know, she's also trans. If you think that isn't important, here's a quote from her in the run-up to the ~~2014~~2024 (EDIT sorry I didn't notice my fumble fingered mistake until later) election:

"We’re not asking for much. We don’t want special treatment. We just want respect. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Right now I want legislators to get the fuck out of our doctors’ office.

I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics. Half of us are trans. If all you care about is Linux, resist the attacks on trans people.

If you have any decency, fight back.

It’s your choice."

[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Thank you for sharing this. She's awesome.

[–] atomo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

💚

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

She also did this while she was still a full time undergraduate university student. Normally you'd expect someone with more experience to be doing this kind of low level hardware hacking, but she did all this while still young, before even graduating from university.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please do this with the Nvidia chips too! Running Linux on this old Macbook pro is great but I can't turn the brightness down with the generic driver.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Part of why it happened for Apple's chips is that there weren't any Linux-compatible GPU drivers. It's easier to justify investing lots of time and effort into something like this if it makes hardware start working than if all it does is mean you're not using a proprietary driver and in the medium term likely have worse performance.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The other thing is that Apple chips use a modified PowerVR architecture, and not some proprietary architecture.

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Thank you for sharing these links. I'm so impressed by her.