M2 Series¶

Twelve machines across four chips. The M2 generation is the widest of any so far, and the only one to reach the Mac Pro.

Machines¶

Select a device ID to see its feature detail.

The Mac mini is a good illustration of why device IDs matter: j473 and j474s are sold as the same product in the same case, but they are different machines carrying different chips.

Support¶

Bring-up on this generation happens on the M2 Pro primary target, and support states are now recorded for it — select j414s in the machines table for the per-feature detail. Little of this work is machine-specific: with the Windows side of these drivers figured out, most of it translates directly to the other chips.

MacBook Pro 14-inch, M2 Pro — j414s¶

Working. The internal SSD controller; Wi-Fi and Bluetooth; keyboard and trackpad with full gesture support and keyboard backlight; USB 3, including Ethernet with Realtek's arm64 driver installed; and SMC battery reporting, battery health reporting and fan control. The processor reports fully to Device Manager and Task Manager — clock speed, cpufreq for adjusting it, and the different power modes — and P/E core scheduling works natively. The power button is bound to Win+L (a long-press shutdown prompt is a TODO; it needs a user-land client). On graphics, the Honeykrisp Vulkan port runs on Windows and DXVK runs over it.

In progress. WDDM 2.1 is the crucial and most difficult piece — it is what lets DWM and all apps compose through the DX11/Vulkan driver — and it is coming together. 120 Hz, VRR and HDR for the ProMotion display are in progress, as is the SD card reader.

Left to do. The entire media stack — speakers, microphone, webcam. USB4 / Thunderbolt and HDMI. Deep sleep, which matters most for real daily use as a portable and should be straightforward. Touch ID, where the driver is slowly coming along — SEPOS is difficult to poke around. Nested virtualization for WSL and VMs.