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Open source project shows Apple has done some funky stuff with M1
Matthew Hughes Sat 13 Mar 2021 // 15:20 UTC Share
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The Asahi Linux project has published the first progress report detailing its effort to port Linux to the Apple Silicon platform.
The lengthy blog post describes in extensive detail the challenges faced by the project in understanding how Apple’s home-grown proprietary chippery works on a fundamental level, as well as the circumventing the various non-standard quirks that limit the ability to boot third-party operating systems.
The report, written by kernel hacker and Asahi Linux co-founder Hector Martin, unfortunately doesn’t conclude with a link to a fully working Linux distro. It does, however, illustrate how widely Apple Silicon-based Macs diverge from standards you might typically see.
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