Developers use Codex and Claude to build a Linux GPU driver for M4 Macs in a month
10/24/2026 — 10/24, 23:18·1 sources (all)·1 reports (all)
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- Developers Cody Ho and Niklas Sheth released a Linux GPU driver compliant with OpenGL ES 3.0 for M4 Mac mini and MacBook Neo, built in about…
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In September 2026, developers Cody Ho and Niklas Sheth published a Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac mini and the MacBook Neo. It conforms to OpenGL ES 3.0 and runs on those machines, and the pair built it in roughly a month.
On October 24, 2026, DEV Community covered the work and noted two facts it said most other coverage had missed. First, the bulk of the code was written by LLM coding agents: Ho used Codex for the kernel and firmware reverse engineering, and Claude for the user-mode components. Second, the driver ships with Gravity Linux, a distribution that forked off from Asahi Linux specifically because Asahi banned AI-generated contributions while Gravity permits them. The article offers no later developments on the driver.
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Two developers, Cody Ho and Niklas Sheth, published a working OpenGL ES 3.0-conformant Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac mini and MacBook Neo, built in about a month. The article notes two facts most coverage misses: coding agents wrote most of the code, with Ho using Codex for kernel and firmware reverse engineering and Claude for user-space work, and the driver ships in Gravity Linux, a Fedora remix forked from Asahi Linux specifically because Asahi bans generative AI contributions.
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