Apple Silicon Watch — 2026-10-31 #17

Apple Silicon Watch — 2026-10-31

aurora-silicon/linux

• PR #719: media: apple: ave: add per-ABI writers and 6070 lifecycle (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #716: media: apple: ave: recover wedged firmware and fail queued buffers (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #718: accel/ane: keep the CPU boost when no performance controller is bound (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #717: accel/ane: H13 recovery without reboot (H13 part of #692, on aurora-wip) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #715: J616s: CPU thermal backstop, energy model and sustainable power (replaces 606 and 635) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #667: iio: aop: expose firmware CCT from Redbird reports (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #686: pwm: apple: Runtime suspend disabled outputs (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #684: accel/ane: add scoped PMP levels and bandwidth-vote infrastructure (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #695: wifi: mt7932: honor PSC/RNR scans and passive discovery budgets (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #682: media: apple: ave: release initial power-domain supplier references (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #685: accel/ane: validate the H16 task stream prologue (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #681: accel/ane: prepare H16 UUID submission and strict HWX validation (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #688: arm64: dts: apple: t8112-j413/j415: Describe the Mesa data-ready line (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #687: soc: apple: sep: Say what a verify non-match actually was (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #680: iio: aop: AOP accelerometer and gyroscope (J616s, ready for J713) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #694: accel/ane: enable the base M2 Neural Engine (replaces #633) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #693: HID: apple-mtp-haptic: restore click strength after resume (replaces #612) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #679: media: apple-isp: derive video-call sizes from processed crops (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #678: drm/apple: retain optional firmware panel colourimetry (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #690: sched/fair: Rotate misfit tasks with tasks on busy bigger CPUs (J616s all-core -21.5 %) (by RyanTheTide)
• PR #677: wifi: brcmfmac: report short GI for HT and VHT ratespecs (by RyanTheTide)

omacom/linux-aurora

• PR #312: drm/apple: enable J613 panel brightness control (by DjDeveloperr)
• PR #311: brcmfmac: pass the country to the Wi-Fi firmware on Apple boards (by erykwieliczko)
• PR #276: drm/asahi: g17: admit a context's ioctls to work states in submission order (stacked on #275) (by DjDeveloperr)
• PR #278: drm/asahi: g17: stop withholding compute doorbells (by DjDeveloperr)
• PR #275: drm/asahi: g17: keep a work-state node for the other engine (by DjDeveloperr)
• PR #300: drm/apple: turn DP/HDMI audio on by default (by erykwieliczko)
• PR #297: drm/apple: hold the audio link on the Type-C ports too (by erykwieliczko)
• PR #295: drm/apple: set an external mode again once the display is on (by erykwieliczko)
• PR #299: ci: vouch for satchlj (by maralcbr)
• PR #294: tools: keep the AV1, G15 and TypeC host tests building with their extracted sources (by chriskearney)
• 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)

ublue-os/bazzite

• PR #6190: fix(brh): treat an already-pending rebase as success (by LDCanetti)
• PR #6189: fix(motd): restore accent color theme for glow (by LDCanetti)
• PR #6187: fix(automounting): check unit exists instead of active state (by LDCanetti)
• PR #6193: fix(gnome): compile Logo Menu translations (by LDCanetti)
• PR #6191: fix(portal): pin default terminal for xdg-terminal-exec (by LDCanetti)
• PR #6186: fix(opentabletdriver): only download the x64 binary tarball (by LDCanetti)
• 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)

AsahiLinux/m1n1

• PR #750: cpufreq: Add T6040 support (by svenpeter42)

tuna-os/fisherman

• PR #393: fix: validate bound live media before source lookup (by hanthor)
• PR #392: ci: cache verified host-tool downloads without reusing VM state (by hanthor)
• PR #391: chore(branding): sync bonito mark, drop unreferenced emoji SVG (by hanthor)
• PR #390: fix(install): use arch-correct systemd-boot file names on arm64 (by hanthor)
• Release v0.5.1 v0.5.1

nix-community/nixos-apple-silicon

• PR #567: build(deps): bump nixpkgs from e7439b6 to 02c087f (by dependabot[bot])
• PR #568: linux-asahi: asahi-7.2.12-2 -> asahi-7.2.13-1 (by sempiternal-aurora)

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