Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
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Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
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#2> In particular, we will be reverse engineering the Apple GPU architecture and developing an open source driver for it.
Well, this is exciting. I suppose it was inevitable that someone would take on this challenge, but it's exciting all the same.
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#3Looks like his donation/sponsorship page is down :-(
I’m super excited someone is taking this on. Hopefully Apple contributes drivers as well — they only stand to gain from the success of this project.
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#4I was wondering if this was the project of the guy that talked about doing this a while back, which I read about here on HN and indeed it is.
Announcement post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/website-launch-45852093
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#5I'll buy our whole company these macs in a heartbeat if this becomes good enough
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#6Looks like his donation/sponsorship page is down :-( I’m super excited someone is taking this on. Hopefully Apple contributes drivers as well — they only stand to gain from the success of this project.
Wouldn't the sponsorship page be this: https://www.patreon.com/marcan
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#7Very interesting overall.
> Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these devices.
Indefinitely? How do we know it's a feature vs a temporarily convenient oversight?
> Our goal is not just to make Linux run on these machines, but to polish it to the point where it can be used as a daily OS. Doing this requires a huge amount of work to be done, as Apple Silicon is a completely undocumented platform. In particular, we will be reverse engineering the Apple GPU architecture and developing an open source driver for it.
This looks like the major bullet point. The wiki is currently empty, but while it's WIP, it would be nice to see some of the major milestones or breakdown of the goal mentioned above.
Best of luck to Hector and the contributors!
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#8On the About page: "...requires a huge amount of work to be done, as Apple Silicon is a completely undocumented platform"
It "is" a well-documented platform. I'm hoping that Apple makes it available to the open source community to make Linux on M1 happen sooner than later.
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#9Very interesting overall. > Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these devices. Indefinitely? How do we know it's a feature vs a temporarily convenient oversight? > Our goal is not just to make Linux run on these machines, but to polish it to the point where it can be used as a daily OS. Do…
>Indefinitely? How do we know it's a feature vs a temporarily convenient oversight?
Basically nothing can be known to be indefinite. But Apple has signaled that they'd be open for ARM Boot Camp if Microsoft was to sell non-OEM Windows for ARM licenses. So it seems like Apple might consider multi-booting a feature.
Re: Asahi Linux: Linux on Apple Silicon project
#10Very interesting overall. > Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon macs without a jailbreak! This isn’t a hack or an omission, but an actual feature that Apple built into these devices. Indefinitely? How do we know it's a feature vs a temporarily convenient oversight? > Our goal is not just to make Linux run on these machines, but to polish it to the point where it can be used as a daily OS. Do…
>How do we know it's a feature vs a temporarily convenient oversight?
Considering the level of GUI work that outright supports this feature in recovery mode on an M1, I'm inclined to think it's not an oversight.