Any Arch Linux users should feel right at home, Martin said.
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Martin announced the crowdfunding project in December and officially launched the project this week after reaching the $4,000 per month target he wanted to begin serious work on the Linux port for Apple s M1 – the first release of Apple s Arm-based silicon system-on-chips (SoC) for Macs.
The project is being developed in the open with contributions regularly pushed to GitHub.
The Asahi project today also announced it had gained the help of Alyssa Rosenzweig, a developer who s been working on Panfrost, a free and open-source graphics stack for Arm Mali GPUs used in Android devices. Arm Mali GPUs have been historical thorns in Linux s side, due to the closed nature of the official drivers, Rosenzweig explained.
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But a big chunk of its sales are destined for industrial applications. Raspberry Pi estimates 44% of the computers are sold to the industrial market each year. It bases this figure on the observation that large numbers of older models continue being bought after sales of the latest Raspberry Pi decline. Typically sales of a consumer product drop off once a new product is released, but we still see incredible sales of older models of Raspberry Pi. Our inference is that these are destined for embedded applications, where changing to the latest model is not practical, said Roger Thornton, a Raspberry Pi hardware engineer in a blogpost.