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The Asahi project has made a breakthrough in USB and peripheral support for porting Linux systems to Apple Silicon Mac.

Shulou Source: shulou.com Published: 2023-11-24 12:00:59 10月05日 Update

CTOnews.com November 23 news, Asahi project was founded to port Linux to Apple Silicon Mac devices, in the recent official update of the dynamic said in the expansion of USB and peripheral support has made breakthrough progress.

CTOnews.com understands that the entire blog post details the current status of the Asahi project and future improvements, highlighting major breakthroughs in peripherals, USB-C and headphones.

At this stage, Asahi Linux only supports USB 2.0 on ThunderBolt ports, but the team says support for USB 3.0 is coming soon. The subtitle in the blog post is "USB3, Chapter 2x7 Gen3.1415," suggesting that support for USB 3.1 may be added.

At the same time, Ashai Linux has also made breakthroughs in Mac speaker support. The team is currently developing a safety model so that the effects of damaging speakers during testing do not occur. Although speakers are disabled by default at this stage, the team says there has been a breakthrough.

But thanks to reverse engineering of the headphone codec used in newer Macs, headphone jacks are now supported. The new update also supports keyboard backlighting and adjusting display brightness.

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