Apple Silicon Watch — 2026-10-30 #16

Apple Silicon Watch — 2026-10-30

aurora-silicon/linux

• PR #659: wifi: mt7932: WPA2 PMF with PSK-SHA256 and 6 GHz LPI with J700 TPE projection (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #657: dmaengine: apple-admac and i2c: pasemi: runtime PM so idle power domains can turn off (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #655: drm/asahi: g17: report qualified utilisation and pstate in agx_stats on G16S and G17P (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #654: J700 rear USB-C: retrain SuperSpeed after a boot-time PIPE lock failure (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #653: media: apple: ave: probe-only T6000 and T8112 match data, disabled DT nodes (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #651: J700 system sleep: refuse AVE suspend when the firmware cannot halt, and notify DockChannel HID drivers (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #650: PCI: apple: initialize T600x and T8112 tunnels from DT (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #649: PCI: apple: use a DT-selected T8140 radio PCIe bootstrap (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #641: PCI: apple: piodma: Let the device tree alone select the J700 bootstrap (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #642: hwmon: macsmc: Move SoC die and pressure key data into DT (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #643: drm/asahi: Account per-client GPU engine time in fdinfo (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #645: arm64: dts: apple: t6040: describe non-PCI DART apertures (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #639: hwmon: macsmc: let the device tree allow manual fan speeds (J616s fans without fan_control) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #646: wifi: mt7932: apply station power policy after association on 7.3 (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #647: phy: apple: atc: Skip stopped PIPE locks on M1/M2 (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #591: ASoC: apple: macaudio: no PCM for the J616s route-only front-ends (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #634: soc: apple: mailbox: Do not sleep past free FIFO space (integration/aurora) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #632: wifi: mt7932: report a connect the AP did not complete at info level (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #615: media: apple: ave: V4L2 stateful encoder for the J700 AVE, and enable it in the J700 DT (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #631: arm64: dts: apple: t8140-j700: Drop SMC sensors the J700 does not have (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #630: soc: apple: mailbox: Do not sleep past free FIFO space (aurora-wip rebase) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #584: tools: aurora-sep: share the SELinux device type and let fprintd read the lid (rebased) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #602: drm/asahi: keep G15 compatible with the shared G16 interfaces (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #613: soc: apple: display gate: say why the port controller link stays managed (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #629: media: apple: isp: let a P010 queue allocate its two buffers (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #628: pmdomain: apple: power both parents of DISPEXT1_SYS on the J616s (replaces #614) (by RyanTheTide)

omacom/linux-aurora

• PR #287: drm/asahi: g15: renumber the TA/FS and compute stamps before they wrap (by samucarre)
• PR #225: drm: apple: answer eDP for the J313 backlight and cap it at 394 nits (by ludagoo)
• PR #259: drm/apple: v14.7: admit panel brightness on the J516C (by samucarre)
• PR #222: HID: spi-hid-apple: stop status mismatches on boot and suspend (by ludagoo)
• PR #220: iio: common: aop_sensors: Publish CT720 color channels (by ludagoo)
• PR #279: J700: leave the video encoder disabled; build the phram MTD driver (by DjDeveloperr)
• PR #273: drm/asahi: reserve the M5 UAPI feature bits, command types and bind flag (by DjDeveloperr)
• PR #263: soc: apple: clpc: count how often the GPU floor is released and comes back (by DjDeveloperr)
• PR #146: j613: CPU thermal zones and SoC die sensors (MacBook Air 13" M3) (by GehrmannSolutions)
• PR #280: drm/asahi: g17: log a closed client's teardown failures at debug level (by DjDeveloperr)
• PR #272: iommu/apple-dart: warn once per stream when a retire invalidate fails (by DjDeveloperr)
• PR #153: media: uvcvideo: reject zero-length extension unit control queries (by briantoll)
• PR #219: leds: pwm: do not force the LED off when period readback is zero (by ludagoo)
• PR #213: mesa-m3: catch Bash append overrides during system handoff (by chriskearney)
• PR #166: ASoC: tas2764, tas2770: do not log a deferred probe as an error (by joshuaswarren)
• PR #281: drm/asahi: expose raw firmware statistics through debugfs (by joshuaswarren)
• PR #274: Make M3 Pro sleep use 1.4 W instead of 2.6 W, and add the RTC wake alarm (by erykwieliczko)
• PR #286: drm/asahi: pin J514S B0 firmware and refresh its golden tests (by chriskearney)
• PR #243: drm/apple: declare a soft dependency on the display crossbar (by JeppeBylov)
• PR #265: M3 Pro: keep HDMI audio working across pause, rate changes and output switches; add USB-C DisplayPort audio (by erykwieliczko)
• PR #188: USB4 eGPU on Apple Silicon: AMD RX 7600 runs llama.cpp on Vulkan (non-posted BARs, identity tunnel windows) (by joshuaswarren)

omacom/omarchy-mac-installer

• PR #154: Pin app 2.3.11 in the release pipeline (by github-actions[bot])
• PR #153: Simplify the installer and Recovery screens (by DjDeveloperr)
• Release v2.3.11 Omarchy Installer 2.3.11

ublue-os/bazzite

• PR #6111: fix(jupiter-hw-support): allow sys_tz in exFAT automount options (by T-baby)
• PR #6175: docs(l10n): update Swedish README metrics sections (by yeager)
• Release unstable-45.20261029.1 unstable-45.20261029.1: Unstable (F45.20261029, #2e6b522)
• Release unstable-45.20261029 unstable-45.20261029: Unstable (F45.20261029, #a69926e)

aurora-silicon/u-boot

• PR #25: Revert "nvme: apple: restart a pre-M4 ANS that the previous stage left running" (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #22: arm: apple: leave the USB-C ports to the OS on machines with a keyboard (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #24: arm: apple: read the DRAM ranges in one pass of the device tree (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #23: nvme: apple: restart a pre-M4 ANS that the previous stage left running (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #20: test/py: apple_mtp_keyboard: model the deferred keyboard enable (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #15: arm: apple: let the J713 import take a 192 KiB m1n1 tree (by erikwb)

aurora-silicon/aurora-steam-native

• PR #12: aurora-play: never overwrite or remove a user's own Proton user_settings.py (by RyanTheTide)

tuna-os/bootc-installer-asahi

• PR #189: ci: pin actions, publish bootstrap on main push, fail closed on missing R2 secrets (by hanthor)
• PR #175: refactor: extract bootsahi agent policy library (by hanthor-hive-agent[bot])

Automated watch for dracinn/bazzite-asahi. Edit WATCH_REPOS in .github/workflows/apple-silicon-watch.yml.