Asahi Linux releases 7.2 with improved Apple Silicon power management
New progress report details solutions to CPU core power management constraints on Apple's custom chips.
What to know
- Asahi Linux 7.2 brings improved CPU power management for Apple Silicon machines running Linux.
- The project solved a technical constraint: Apple Silicon lacks EL3 firmware support, preventing use of the standard Linux PSCI interface.
- Asahi repurposed its m1n1 bootloader to act as firmware, implementing PSCI functions to enable proper CPU sleep states and improve battery life.
“Being able to properly power-manage the CPU cores is vital for battery life and efficiency, so the status quo simply will not do.”
Asahi Linux team · Asahi Linux progress report
Asahi Linux Linux distribution for Apple Silicon
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- Aug 30
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# AsahiLinux unterstützt Apples M3 Macs fast vollständig unter Linux mit funktionierenden Kameras, Mikrofonen, USB 3.0, Thunderbolt und Grafik. Erste Schritte für M4 und M5 zeigen Fortschritte bei Speicher und PCIe, allerdings fehlen wichtige Hardwarefunktionen noch. https:// asahilinux.org/2026/08/progres s-report-7-2/
- Aug 27
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Welcome to Lobsters and thank you for the helpful reply. Have fun & good luck :)
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In a perfect world, we would love to pay for ongoing development & maintenance. Unfortunately, $100k is nowhere enough to pay competitive salaries to a team of full-time low-level developers! As always in life, we work with the budget we have, not the budget we want. Details short-term TBA and long-term TBD.
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Welcome to Lobsters! Will the contracts be tied to specific upstreaming milestones, or are you looking to fund ongoing maintainer time?
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The only reason is because M2 to M3 was a dramatic shift in how everything works, M1 and M2 were both compatible with one another, I'm not sure if after M3 its been stable, but I sure hope so, there's value in my opinion in being backwards compatible with older CPUs.
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We're working on it! Our current expenses are [public](https://opencollective.com/asahilinux/expenses) - currently, we pay for Fedora Asahi Remix integration work and sponsor hardware for many contributors. Going forward, the board has already greenlit proposals to contract kernel development with a focus on upstreaming and new hardware…
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you overlooked the UTM.app (also buildable from open source) on the App Store, which allows installation from an ISO of arm-native linux builds, directly run via the Apple hypervisor.framework, _not_ using Qemu emulation.it's fast as greased lightning and fantastic. I've used it two or so years on M1, M2, M2 Max, and M5 and it's what I think you…
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> If you think about it, m1n1 is almost like our own firmware for Apple Silicon.If you really think about it, it's kinda amusing how far we came from https://wiibrew.org/wiki/MINI being used to bootstrap homebrew on the Nintendo Wii on PPC to being used to fire up our Macs daily running Asahi on ARM.
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We seriously need an open hardware law or something. Like it doesn't have to be regulation necessarily (as by law) but we really need to start very strongly pressuring/forcing companies to open up their hardware and provide all documentation to get any operating system to run on it, and to hell with what the manufacturer wants (to prevent things…
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Someone out there can go and build a cancer vaccine for their dog, and I can't even find a door into projects like this — that's on me. Forget a PR, even making a comment feels devastating - human communication -. I have everything it takes to help this project, and I can do nothing. Lovely.
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I've pretty much given up on Asahi because of the years-long delays, and because there's no performant way to share disk space for data with MacOS.By running Linux in a VM on MacOS on Apple silicon, you sacrifice some raw speed but in return you still get to run MacOS apps occasionally and have access to the same data from either MacOS or Linux…
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I am glad that they are making progress and that more developers are joining! However the account balance on Open Collective is over $100k and I am wondering how they will use that money. It is probably very difficult to start paying someone in a volunteer project. The pmOS team was in a similar position and started paying people for upstreaming…
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I truly understand the frustration of people asking when will it be done, and that DP Alt Mode got past that point. However it was in an official progress report, but then the last three don't mention it at all. (I have been running it without issue that whole time). A single line on the current scale of outstanding bugs would really help.
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I hope they will support M4 soon, I cant stand macos and its desire to be different than everything else by custom keyboard shortcuts etc.After 2 years of usage, I still have issues with basic actions like copy paste.edit: omg, writing this post, i checked if there is some way to use linux shortcuts and there is (Kanesh/KMonad or…
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Good to hear that more people are donating to further the project. So far and in the past year I did not have any problems with Asahi Fedora, and it has been my daily driver on an M1 MBP. At home even USB-C => DP worked on fairydust kernel, but it's lack of stability doesn't personally bother me as my MBP has an HDMI port (I got lucky there) :)
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Everyone is free to work on whatever they want, but...I wish the amount of time and brain power spent on this project was instead used to work on something more friendly to the Linux community.For example to improve Strix Halo GPU and NPU support.
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>The ARM specification mandates that cores in WFI loops should preserve all state. This is not the default mode on Apple Silicon.I sometimes do wonder at what point do ARM find and test these stuff and ask Apple to follow. Obviously this is not the first time we see such thing happened.
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"I paid thousands of dollars to apple who doesn't document their hardware or pay developers to contribute drivers Linux. Then I just waited for some unpaid volunteer to do it for me."
- Aug 26
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I have immense respect for the incredible work that the Asahi team does, but at the rate that Intel and AMD have been catching up on power efficiency I wonder whether anyone will really _have_ to run Linux on M series laptops. There was a clear case for it back when Apple silicon absolutely dominated anything else you could buy but with Panther…
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This project has been so impressive and exciting. I hope power management is a serious concern once they nail all the reverse engineering and functionality. Battery life would be a huge differentiator for the day to day macbook usage and traditionally Linux has been terrible at that due to lack of proprietary & highly tuned drivers
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> Thanks to the combined efforts of mildsunrise and chaos_princess, we discovered that ACE3 has pretty much the same register set as CD3217, only wrapped in a SPMI interface instead of addressed over I2C. Both the SPMI interface and ACE3 itself are now working in Asahi Linux, bringing USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt support to all M3 series devices.When I…
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Yeah, you'll find out that va-api is not a good match for v4l2-requests. It does not pass decoded bitstream to the drivers as is, but pre-computes some things for some codecs, while v4l2-requests mostly expects original information parsed from the bitstream.
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It's time to # ThinkDifferent with this new progress report! # AsahiLinux https:// asahilinux.org/2026/08/progres s-report-7-2/