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<mps>
so mesa asahi is merged to mesa upstream 23.1.0 rc series?
<mps>
and it will need some of the newest kernels I guess
<_jannau_>
no
<mps>
_jannau_: I just built mesa 23.1.0-rc with asahi gallium
<_jannau_>
the asahi driver in upstream mesa has no interface to any kernel
<mps>
s/rc/rc2/
<mps>
ah
<_jannau_>
sure, you can build that as you could for a long time. it is not functional
<mps>
_jannau_: thanks for info
<mps>
anyone using openBSD on apple silicon as workstation with GUI desktop/WM?
<mps>
thinking to test it on my 'spare' macbook
<chadmed>
kettenis might know someone
<mps>
I don't have much experience with openBSD and before start to learning seriously would like to know if it useful on m1
<chadmed>
afaik theres no dcp or gpu yet
<chadmed>
and the latter likely wont be there for a long time yet
<chadmed>
the bsd folks have no intention to support rust, so the driver will need to be ported to C
<mps>
aha, then it sounds like I don't have to try
<mps>
chadmed: thanks for info
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<tobhe>
mps: I do. chadmed is right though, the gpu situation is a bit difficult. Works for me since I don't really need accelerated graphics for what I do on OpenBSD.
<mps>
tobhe: does openBSD have something like linux simpledrm driver
<tobhe>
yes
<mps>
also I don't need much GPU
<tobhe>
we do have graphics output, just not gpu accelerated
<mps>
so, mpv works fine, I guess
<tobhe>
haven't tried that but youtube in chromium works. It isn't great though.
<mps>
and and chromium/firefox worked with simpledrm on linux but now with GPU it is substantially better
<tobhe>
yep, mpv works too
<mps>
s/^and//
<mps>
even Kicad and stellarium worked acceptably with simpledrm
<mps>
tobhe: thank you for info, I will contemplate should I start to play with openBSD on m1
<mps>
or wait for GPU in it
<tobhe>
not sure if it's worth waiting :)
<mps>
maybe you are right but I'm not in hurry, for now alpine linux works
<tobhe>
sure :) if you decide to give it a go sometime and need help, feel free to ask
<mps>
thanks, will do
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<mps>
tobhe: I've got openBSD install img booting from usb, and trying to bring up wifi says there is no firmware (which is ok). are there any guide how to install firmware and rest of OS on nvme
<cy8aer>
The firmware is in the efi partition where m1n1 is installed. For linux this is /boot/efi/vendorfw - it is copied by m1n1.
<cy8aer>
It is a tarball which can be unpacked at the firmware place (linux: /lib/firmware)
<mps>
cy8aer: I know, but I don't know how and where to extract it for openBSD
<cy8aer>
Oh, I see... That I do not know either...
<tobhe>
i "think" you should be fine without firmware since in the case of apple silicon all you need should come from the ESP
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<tobhe>
the installer itself should handle that
<tobhe>
i think I have always used miniroot because that includes the necessary firmware on other arm devices
<mps>
tobhe: I already read this guide
<tobhe>
the firmware path should be /etc/firmware
<mps>
next time I will try with miniroot img
<tobhe>
I think you could either try again with the miniroot image or go to http://firmware.openbsd.org/firmware/7.3/ fetch the bwfm firmware and unpack it manually
<mps>
for now I'm playing with openBSD with qemu VM, and I see qemu 8.0 doesn't work 'fine'