Progress Report: Linux 7.2

The Asahi Linux team shares a deep technical progress report covering CPU power management on Apple Silicon (working around the lack of an EL3/PSCI implementation via a UEFI Runtime Service conduit in m1n1), a fix for M4 crashes caused by locked chicken bits affecting WFI state retention, and a workaround enabling the m1n1 hypervisor to run alongside Apple's SPTM/GXF security architecture on M4+ devices. Also covered: M3 series progress (webcam, microphone, ACE3 USB-C controller support, DCP firmware parity), early M4/M5 bringup (NVMe, PCIe), hardware video decode (AVD) reaching VA-API compatibility via a forked translation layer, and work toward direct scanout of GPU/video framebuffers via Apple's Interchange format, currently blocked by KDE Kwin's multi-GPU handling.

Source: https://asahilinux.org/2026/08/progress-report-7-2. 8 Sync News only summarizes and links out; content copyright belongs to the authors and original sources.