Alyssa Rosenzweig is a badass low-lever coder. I believe she’s been responsible for a huge amount of the video driver work for Asahi. What an ass-kicker.
It's amazing to see how Alyssa Rosenzweig took Faik Ekstrand's NVK and repurposed it for Apple Silicon. I think this is a great example of the strength of open source, where code can be repurposed (if a competent enough individual comes around).
I've heard before that NVK is good building block for the future to make better drivers for all GPU's, but I'd never thought it'd be reused this fast. I wonder whether they'll be able to take NVK improvements easily to Honeykrisp, and vice-versa in the future.
Also, it's incredible how the state of Linux on MacBooks is better than in the late Intel days, now that such competent developers focused on getting the hardware running (it's been quite difficult to install Linux on some Intel MacBooks, I believe because of their security chip).