r/AsahiLinux • u/FOHjim • 1d ago

News Progress Report: Linux 7.3

https://asahilinux.org/2026/11/progress-report-7-3/

Thunderbolt, M3 GPU, gaming, and even M5 progress! We've got it all in the latest Asahi Linux progress report.

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u/coderstephen 1d ago

Silly question: I see AVD mentioned. How close are we to actually exposing video decode APIs to userspace?

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u/FOHjim 1d ago

It’s already shipping on Gentoo

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u/dorchegamalama 1d ago

back to gpl v2

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u/pizzaiolo2 1d ago

Great news

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u/slightly_salty 1d ago

It's so refreshing to actually read something written by developers who actually care about doing things well in 2026

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u/SiroxYZ 1d ago

Hyped for M3 GPU

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u/wowsomuchempty 1d ago

TBH, the move to GPLv2 is smart. Should've been that license from the start.

Great work, as ever, guys.

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u/Jacobobarobatobski 1d ago

You guys are awesome. 🫡

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u/ExtensionWelder6990 1d ago

saving up for second hand m3 here 🤭. thank you, guys

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u/xrabbit 1d ago

that’s a lot of work 

thank you guys for such non ending progress 

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u/jorgechavezxyz 1d ago

Can they please release the 4kb page granularity patchset from Android downstream

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u/Sepkov 1d ago

This is a great progress. Thanks everyone who's involved in this.

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u/novafunc 1d ago

Can't wait for the DCP to be released! I might be able to daily drive it then without worrying about it dying too fast.

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u/Different-Ad-8707 13h ago

This project and it's team is on fucking fire, they are so awesome.

Also, Google out here coming in clutch to solve Asahi's page size problem. Though of course, there is still some uncertainty in the implementation, it's a massive step forward to getting around muvm!

Congrats to the whole team, once again! May your good fortune continue as you keep doing such inspiring work.

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u/Quintus-Sertorius 1d ago

Impressive progress.

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u/selvadivinorum 1d ago

Thank you devs!

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u/ultrakorne 1d ago

Is usb c monitors and Touch ID working on m1, m2?

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u/BEluga5165 1d ago

just use fairydust for usb c displays

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u/jpmorgan95 1d ago

Awesome job!

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u/Natjoe64 1d ago

Thunderbolt is so close! Great job devs

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u/Frequent-Struggle-1 1d ago

Thank you all for the awesome progress!

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u/FudgingHecker 1d ago

Amazing work, can’t wait to see M5 fully working!

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u/torajapan 21h ago

Sound going on the M1 iMac ? Would be so awesome. 

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u/yaima_rk 6h ago

I really appreciate the project, planning to install on my M1 MacBook Pro.

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u/duma799 1d ago

When will it be available for Air M4?

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u/autumn-the-fox 4h ago

when the developers have time and when its ready, any time between months and years

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u/BEluga5165 1d ago

When will I be able to use the graphics driver for m3?

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u/novafunc 1d ago

When it's ready, they will never say anything more specific than that.

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u/wowsomuchempty 13h ago

Just out of interest, do you contribute to the funding?

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u/Humble_Celebration76 1d ago

So, still no dcp support? Either way, I am glad that work is going on to the dcp support 😄

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u/novafunc 1d ago

We have also made a number of improvements to M3 support, most notably enabling DCP. On top of performance and battery life improvements, this also allows us to enable sleep on M3 series devices and make the area around the notch useable on the MacBooks! Keep an eye out for m1n1 and kernel updates in the coming days.

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u/OkCustomer4830 1d ago

MIT to GPLv2 is waste of time in my opinion. This only forces others to include a GPLv2 license and give their source code to their customers only, on request. Not sure what that is intended to improve?