Apple Silicon Mac support packages (v2) #39796

dkwo · 2022-10-07T18:46:11Z

This PR can boot from a USB stick using void-linux/void-mklive#281
I thank @slimjimsoftware @Skirmisher and @Calandracas606 for contributing and/or testing.
Docs pr: void-linux/void-docs#827

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if using seatd and wlroots, see https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/issues/3911
upstream eudev patch for sound eudev-project/eudev@917ae64

dkwo · 2022-10-07T20:32:49Z

After installing in the usual way (chroot), it seems to run smoothly on my m1 macbook air.
I natively rebuilt all the packages for aarch64.
The script update-vendor-firmware runs smoothly.
Next on the list is updating kernel.

Skirmisher · 2022-10-07T20:45:48Z

Note that the way Asahi reference distro handles things like firmware is still in flux; they recently changed it so that "update-vendor-firmware" is run in the initrd, for example. They also have some dracut stuff for Fedora that you can source if it makes sense for Void. Worth checking on pages from the Asahi wiki such as this if you haven't already, as well as asking in their IRC channels if you have questions. marcan has expressed that Asahi would like to help downstream distros make sense of the Asahi work so they can function properly, instead of trying to do it on their own and shipping broken packages (as happened recently with Manjaro).

dkwo · 2022-10-07T22:02:02Z

Thanks for the suggestions, and for doing the initial hard work.
They have a hook for mkinitcpio, but not for dracut yet.
Since the dracut config can be distro-specific, I thought we'd ship our own, but I'm open to suggestions.

dkwo · 2022-10-13T20:20:28Z

Upon some minor config changes, I was able to boot the latest 6.0 series kernel.
It's imperative to run update-m1n1 upon a kernel update, otherwise it won't boot.
It'd be nice if someone could take a second look at the config, to verify that it's inline with Void's standards.

dkwo · 2022-11-03T18:06:35Z

At this point, I think only kernel and m1n1 are really needed, the rest can be dropped,
as m1n1 can boot the initramfs directly. Some work is ongoing as how to load firmware.
Perhaps I'll just keep a script to update m1n1 after every kernel update.

dkwo · 2022-12-01T20:05:45Z

@Skirmisher Now shipping a kernel hook for m1n1, which allows to either have the kernel or uboot as payload.
In my tests it works fine, using

cat /etc/m1n1.conf
chosen.bootargs=earlycon debug root=/dev/nvme0n1p6 rootwait rw loglevel=4

More eyes are welcome :)

Anachron · 2022-12-17T09:55:39Z

This is awesome!

Just a quick question:

@dkwo you said

I natively rebuilt all the packages for aarch64.

Is this phrased correctly? Do we really need to rebuild all aarch64 packages? If yes, should we create another aarch?

Do you have interest in also porting the gpu drivers to Void Linux?

Skirmisher · 2022-12-17T11:47:28Z

I natively rebuilt all the packages for aarch64.

Is this phrased correctly? Do we really need to rebuild all aarch64 packages? If yes, should we create another aarch?

"The packages" in this context is just referring to the ones in this PR. dkwo had to cross-compile the Asahi packages from another machine before making a system image to install on the M1. But after that, Void on the M1 can natively compile the packages; dkwo is confirming that native compilation is also working. The Apple Silicon machines can use Void's existing aarch64 packages just fine.

Do you have interest in also porting the gpu drivers to Void Linux?

There is nothing to "port", the code is already in the same tree that the normal Asahi kernel is built from. It's still a work in progress though, so Asahi Linux (the reference distro) turns it off for their default kernel package, and offers a separate linux-asahi-edge package for testing the GPU driver and other less-stable changes (but the kernel version is otherwise identical).

We could add a similar package, but it wouldn't be a good idea; the Asahi developers are frequently updating both the kernel and their mesa driver (which we would also need to build for the GPU to work), and we shouldn't be adding dev builds to Void. All the Asahi work is supposed to be upstreamed as soon as possible, and while the GPU driver is much bigger than other components and will not be upstreamable for a long time, it is better for us to wait for major features to be properly released. (The kernel is the usual exception here, since at this stage there are a lot of individual additions that make the user experience on M1/M2 machines more complete, but each feature need to be negotiated with mainline Linux developers before making it into an upstream release, even if it only needs minor tweaks to be "done". So, the platform kernel package is likely to stick around for a while, and it keeps to itself in the package tree. We are very lucky that Asahi Linux is diligent about tagging kernel releases and only updating their "stable" package with known-good changes.)

Now, it might be nice to have templates for Asahi dev packages anyway, the hardware is plenty capable of building those updates itself :p But they shouldn't live in void-packages and take up Void maintainers' time and effort.

dkwo · 2022-12-17T14:31:37Z

Exactly as @Skirmisher said. I agree that GPU/mesa might be a bit premature.

fix version, edit config/template, make it closer to Void's

classabbyamp · 2024-12-23T17:47:23Z

srcpkgs/bankstown/template

+checksum=e877508b73fe90774d74526d838f75e8ea278bdbcee0a1f92e3eca67ed734675
+
+do_install() {
+	vmkdir usr/lib/lv2/bankstown.lv2/


vmkdir + vinstall is redundant

classabbyamp · 2024-12-23T17:48:54Z

srcpkgs/linux-asahi/template

+	# If there's a file called <arch>-dotconfig, use it to
+	# configure the kernel; otherwise use arch defaults and all stuff
+	# as modules (allmodconfig).
+	local arch subarch


subarch is an unused variable

classabbyamp · 2024-12-23T17:49:41Z

srcpkgs/linux-asahi/template

+}
+
+do_install() {
+	local arch subarch _args hdrdest


subarch also unused herre

classabbyamp · 2024-12-23T17:50:21Z

srcpkgs/lzfse/template

+	}
+}
+
+post_install() {


post_install should go before subpackages

classabbyamp · 2024-12-23T17:51:48Z

srcpkgs/mesa-asahi/template

+build_options_default="wayland"
+
+# Set subpackages manually
+subpackages="libgbm-asahi libgbm-asahi-devel libOSMesa-asahi mesa-asahi-vaapi mesa-asahi-vdpau


doesn't need to be set manually

classabbyamp · 2024-12-23T17:53:40Z

srcpkgs/speakersafetyd/template

+hostmakedepends="alsa-lib pkg-config"
+makedepends="alsa-lib-devel"
+short_desc="Software Smart Amp implementation"
+maintainer="Orphaned <[email protected]>"


new packages shouldn't be orphaned (same with mesa-asahi)

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