Alyssa Rosenzweig

Alyssa Rosenzweig
BornDecember 2001 (age 22–23)[1]
NationalityUSA[1]
Known forAsahi Linux GPU drivers
Notable workPanfrost
Websiterosenzweig.io

Alyssa Rosenzweig is a software developer[2] and software freedom activist[3] known for her work on free software graphics drivers.[4][5]

Education

Per Rosenzweig's description of her childhood, she grew up in California and came out as a transgender woman at age 10.[6] She was raised Jewish[6] and is now a Quaker.[1]

Rosenzweig attended Dougherty Valley High School, with enrichment classes at Harvard Summer School and the Center for Talented Youth.[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]

Career

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.[12] She left Collabora on 10 April 2023.[13] Since May of 2023, she has worked with Valve Corporation as a contractor.[14]

In September 2020, she wrote a Linux client for the COVID-19 contact tracing used in Canada.[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]

Awards

She is the recipient of the 2020 Award for Outstanding New Free Software Contributor[21][22] and a Google Open Source Peer Bonus.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b c Rosenzweig, Alyssa (2019-12-09). "America's Rough Draft".
  2. ^ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (21 Jan 2021). "Corellium ports Linux to Apple M1 Mac mini". ZDnet. Archived from the original on 22 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  3. ^ Morgenstein, Dana (6 Mar 2020). "Celebrating women in free software for International Women's Day". Free Software Foundation. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  4. ^ a b Grüner, Sebastian (9 Sep 2020). "Bluetooth-Kontaktverfolgung geht auch auf Laptops". Golem.de. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  5. ^ Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Her personal website". Archived from the original on 2021-08-29.
  6. ^ a b Rosenzweig, Alyssa (2023-05-21). "Growing up Alyssa".
  7. ^ a b Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Resume" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-09-25.
  8. ^ "Meet the 2019 Pearson Scholars". University of Toronto. 2019. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  9. ^ Ngan, Jadine (2020). "Alyssa Rosenzweig". Innis Alumni Family and Friends. Toronto: Innis College. p. 30. Archived from the original on 2021-06-06. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  10. ^ Agrawal, Gaurav (3 Oct 2019). "Meet Alyssa Rosenzweig and Panfrost". Getting to Know GNOME. GNOME. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 6 Jun 2021.
  11. ^ Grüner, Sebastian (17 Sep 2020). "ARM unterstützt Entwicklung von freiem Panfrost-Treiber". Golem.de. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  12. ^ Evangelho, Jason (15 Mar 2020). "The $199 Pinebook Pro Gets Even Better With New Manjaro KDE Version". Forbes. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  13. ^ Rosenzweig, Alyssa. "Passing the reins on Panfrost". Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  14. ^ Dawe, Liam (2023-06-27). "Valve pulls in another graphics driver developer for Linux gaming". GamingOnLinux. Retrieved 2023-06-28.
  15. ^ Tung, Liam (8 Jan 2021). "Linux on Apple's Arm silicon Macs? This crowdfunded project wants to give it a try". ZDnet. Archived from the original on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  16. ^ Proschofsky, Andreas (10 Jan 2021). "Asahi Linux soll das freie Betriebssystem auf Macs mit "Apple Silicon" bringen". Der Standard. STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  17. ^ Grüner, Sebastian (20 Apr 2021). "Apples M1-GPU komplett auf Metal ausgerichtet". Golem.de. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  18. ^ "Linux on Apple's M1 makes headway". Linux Format. No. LXF277. Jul 2021. p. 8.
  19. ^ Grüner, Sebastian (3 May 2021). "Freier OpenGL-Treiber für Apples M1-GPU vorgestellt". Golem.de. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  20. ^ July 2021, Francisco Pires 26 (26 July 2021). "Debian Linux Running Bare Metal on Apple's M1 SoC". Tom's Hardware. Archived from the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2021-07-27.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  21. ^ Corbet, Jonathan (21 Mar 2021). "2021 Free Software Awards announced". LWN.net. Eklektix, Inc. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  22. ^ "Free Software Awards winners announced: CiviCRM, Bradley Kuhn, and Alyssa Rosenzweig". Free Software Foundation. 20 Mar 2021. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  23. ^ "Announcing the 2020 first quarter Google Open Source Peer Bonus winners". Google Open Source Blog. Google. 17 Apr 2020. Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.