Basic Support For The Apple M5 Expected To Land For Linux 7.5

Very basic support for the Apple M5 SoC base model is expected to be merged for the Linux 7.5 kernel now that it's been queued into the "apple-soc/dt-7.5" Git branch. Following initial Apple M4 support in Linux 7.4 or the Apple M3 support in Linux 7.2, Linux 7.5 is now expected to present the initial Device Tree support for the Apple M5 base model and the Apple Macs using it. But like that M3/M4 support currently in the mainline kernel, it will be very limited. Yureka Lilian who worked on the Apple M5 Device Trees describes it as the "minimal amount of hardware" support but from which they'll continue building out over future Linux kernel releases: "This series covers only a minimal amount of hardware, which is useful as a basis for future developments. The hardware added here has remained largely unchanged from the earlier Apple Silicon generations." One of the biggest obstacles that remains is around proper GPU support for the newer generations of Apple Silicon M-series SoCs. The patch series was queued by Sven Peter into the "apple-soc/dt-7.5", so look for this very primitive Apple M5 support in Linux 7.5 to help the development efforts moving forward.