Alyssa Rosenzweig

[7] As of 2021, she studies mathematics at Innis College at the University of Toronto as a Lester B. Pearson International Scholar.[8][9][7] As a software engineer at Collabora, she led the Panfrost project,[10] developing free software OpenGL drivers for the Mali GPU to support accelerated graphics in upstream Mesa,[11] shipping out-of-the-box on devices like the Pinebook Pro.[4] As an Asahi Linux developer, she works on reverse-engineering the Apple GPU for the purpose of porting Linux to the Apple M1 processor[15][16][17] to enable the development of a free software Gallium3D-based OpenGL driver[18] targeting the "AGX" architecture found in the M1 GPU.[19] In July 2021, Rosenzweig demonstrated Debian running bare metal on the Apple M1 with a mainline kernel.[20] She is the recipient of the 2020 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor[21][22] and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus.
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