Asahi Linux's progress report for Linux 7.1 covers several key developments. A macOS 27 compatibility issue was discovered where an APFS bootability flag change caused Asahi Linux to disappear from the boot picker; a fix is now included in the installer. A macOS 27 SMC firmware change broke battery management by switching a 32-bit integer return to a single byte, causing emergency shutdowns — patched in kernel 7.0.12. M3 machines now have speaker/headphone audio support, CPU frequency switching, big.LITTLE scheduling, and various core drivers working. A new contributor wrote custom AVD firmware and a V4L2 driver enabling hardware AVC video decoding up to 4K. m1n1 1.6.0 was released, now requiring Rust for stage 2 builds, with GPU initialization moved into m1n1 and improved M3/M4 support groundwork laid.
