Update to my earlier post, Omarchy now boots from the M6 Mac mini’s internal drive. Back then the About screen still said llvmpipe, Mesa’s software renderer. Not anymore.
What’s new
- Day 6, GPU is up. Joshua Warren of the Omarchy M team posted on October 22 that Omarchy on the M6 now uses the GPU. The screenshot shows “Apple M6 (G18G B1)” instead of software rendering.
- He credits Miguel C (@Acelogic_), who says OpenGL 4.6 and Vulkan 1.4 conformance “is in the works.” That’s still a work in progress, not done.
- Day 7, Neural Engine. Early October 24, Warren reported: “Neural Engine: powered on, control processor answers.” MLX sees the M6 GPU and 15.6 GB of memory, but the first op failed on a missing GPU helper in the driver, and a fix was building. Inference is the goal, not a result yet.
- The Neural Engine work is happening in the open in Warren’s omarchy-ane repo, where two pull requests landed on October 24.
- Ethernet, still on the to-do list on day five, isn’t mentioned in either update.
My take
One week from the macOS About screen to Omarchy with a working GPU and a Neural Engine that answers. That’s wild. Just remember this is a community bring-up by the Omarchy M team, not official M6 support you can install today. I’ll keep following it, and I’m waiting to see that first local inference run on the ANE.
Have a blessed day! And Happy Hacking!
