Asahi Linux progress report, August 2021

• OpenCorePkg

  185 12,746 9.3 C

  OpenCore bootloader

  

It can be daunting to look at a popular project in it's current state. Thankfully with Open Source Projects you can go back in time and see how the code evolved.

Here's [1] the first few commits to OpenCore. Much more approachable and inspiring.

[1] https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg/commits/master?af...

• mbp-2016-linux

  68 2,045 0.0 Shell

  State of Linux on the MacBook Pro 2016 & 2017

Depends on the age of the macbook. Older models have reasonable support, newer models are (at best) a pain in the ass.

I generally hit the arch wikis with specific models for the best information.

This github repos also does a good job laying out current support for the 2016 models. https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

Frankly, I haven't tried on a newer model then that - I don't buy apple hardware anymore.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• macOS-Simple-KVM

  135 13,491 0.0 Shell

  Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

Can anyone comment on the possibility of going in the opposite direction?

I’m considering buying the frame.work laptop, daily driving pop_os and then virtualizing OSX on it for the few OSX programs I use (this supports framework and not apple).

It looks like it may be fairly easy and possible with a 10-20% performance hit?

https://github.com/foxlet/macOS-Simple-KVM

From what I can tell you can pass through a single GPU with a bit of work, even a iGPU? Is that correct?

• upb

  6 1,503 8.3 C

  a small protobuf implementation in C

  

> But yes, the serialized dict-of-arrays-of-dicts type stuff can be approached in a few ways, none of which are particularly beautiful.

For what it's worth, this sounds somewhat similar to protobuf (which also supports dicts, arrays, etc).

After spending many years trying to figure out the smallest, fastest, and simplest way to implement protobuf in https://github.com/protocolbuffers/upb, the single best improvement I found was to make the entire memory management model arena-based.

When you parse an incoming request, all the little objects (messages, arrays, maps, etc) are allocated on the arena. When you are done with it, you just free the arena.

In my experience this results in code that is both simpler and faster than trying to memory-manage all of the sub-objects independently. It also integrates nicely with existing memory-management schemes: I've been able to adapt the arena model to both Ruby (tracing GC) and PHP (refcounting) runtimes. You just have to make sure that the arena itself outlives any reference to any of the objects within.

• idevicerestore

  21 1,197 7.7 C

  Restore/upgrade firmware of iOS devices

  

I don't know about Windows, but it runs on Linux, yes, and it works on all M1 Macs (as targets) to my knowledge. See: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/idevicerestore/pull/406

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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