@allison >run the models on asahi using free reverse engineered gpu/tpu drivers because apple doesn't sabotage re efforts for it
I wouldn't call those drivers free, considering that Aarch64 Macs have a bootloader that loads a huge amount of proprietary software like peripheral software onto the GPU etc at boottime (proprietary software lovers really love that "feature") and it's not possible cryptographically to free that software.

While apple for now doesn't dedicate all their effort to stop half of the GPU/TPU driver from being re-written, half of the driver being free doesn't really result it as a whole being free.

>no such comfort awaits the nvidia user.
Actually it kind of does 700 series and below with the free nouveau driver.

OpenCL support is currently pretty poor, but those GPUs do current have a 95% free driver considering that the Linux driver and the peripheral software are free - the remaining issue is that VBIOS's stored in an EEPROM chip on the GPUs are proprietary - but freeing such VBIOS's seems possible with enough effort, as 700 series and below lack cryptographic handcuffs.