--- title: Rosenzweig – OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux | daily.dev description: Asahi Linux's graphics drivers have been upgraded from OpenGL 2.1 to OpenGL 3.1, and from OpenGL ES 2.0 to OpenGL ES 3.0. The post dives deep into how Apple's... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rosenzweig-opengl-3-1-on-asahi-linux-fwql9slmu twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Rosenzweig – OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux | daily.dev og:description: Asahi Linux's graphics drivers have been upgraded from OpenGL 2.1 to OpenGL 3.1, and from OpenGL ES 2.0 to OpenGL ES 3.0. The post dives deep into how Apple's... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rosenzweig-opengl-3-1-on-asahi-linux-fwql9slmu og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FWQl9Slmu.png og:image:alt: Rosenzweig – OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rosenzweig – OpenGL 3.1 on Asahi Linux **[Alyssa Rosenzweig](https://daily.dev/sources/rosenzweig)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Asahi Linux's graphics drivers have been upgraded from OpenGL 2.1 to OpenGL 3.1, and from OpenGL ES 2.0 to OpenGL ES 3.0. The post dives deep into how Apple's AGX GPU handles multisampling and sample shading differently from typical GPUs — executing shaders once per pixel rather than per sample, and implementing blending in software rather than dedicated hardware. The driver works around this by wrapping fragment shaders in a per-sample loop and relying on compiler optimizations (like common subexpression elimination and code motion) to hoist invariant expressions out of the loop, achieving correct and performant results. OpenGL ES 3.1 with compute shaders is nearly complete, and the same multisampling compiler passes are being reused for the upcoming Vulkan driver. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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