{"id":53127,"date":"2026-09-08T16:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=53127"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:14:23","slug":"asahi-linux-supports-m3-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/08\/asahi-linux-supports-m3-macs\/","title":{"rendered":"Asahi Linux Supports M3 Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asahilinux.org\/2026\/09\/m2-episode-1\/\">James Calligeros<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=49586698\">Hacker News<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/forums\/forum\/phoronix\/latest-phoronix-articles\/1656776-asahi-linux-now-officially-supports-apple-m3-macs-with-caveats\">Phoronix<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/asahilinux.org\/2026\/09\/m2-episode-1\/\">\n<p>Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with an M3 series SoC!<\/p>\n<p>Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where <em>almost<\/em>\neverything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the webcam, internal\nmicrophones, USB (up to the hardware limit of USB 3 10 Gb\/s), hardware\naccelerated video decoding <strong>including support for AV1<\/strong>, WiFi, Bluetooth, and much more! The only major\nexceptions remain full DCP support and the GPU, which we will have more news on in the\n<a href=\"https:\/\/indico.freedesktop.org\/event\/12\/contributions\/532\/\">coming months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Sleep currently <strong>does not work<\/strong> due to limitations with the firmware-provided framebuffer.\nThis will be addressed once full DCP support is wired up for M3.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Although MacBooks and iMacs are supported (M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max), the Mac Studio (M3 Ultra) is not yet supported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/26\/omarchy-and-omacom-foundation\/\">Omarchy and Omacom Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/14\/asahi-linux-lead-resigns\/\">Asahi Linux Lead Resigns<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/24\/the-apple-gpu-and-the-impossible-bug\/\">The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/14\/macos-11-2-beta-2-adds-full-custom-kernel-support\/\">macOS 11.2 Beta 2 Adds Full Custom Kernel Support<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Calligeros (Hacker News, Phoronix): Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with an M3 series SoC! Linux support for M3 series SoCs and the machines powered by them is now in a state where almost everything supported on the M1 and M2 series machines just works. This includes the webcam, internal microphones, USB (up to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-09-08T20:14:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"6462298c-a5a5-4372-9ff8-5b2b67dc9811","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-09-08T20:14:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZGIpjKWlQ3Kf-FsrZ9yYEQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2489,2736,448,30,1841],"class_list":["post-53127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-m3","tag-apple-m3-ultra","tag-linux","tag-mac","tag-sleep"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53128,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53127\/revisions\/53128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}