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Re: Linux Running on Apple M1

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This was quite fast considering that Apple opened up booting custom objects sometime last week…it seems to still be software rendering for now, but it's good to see this progressing so quickly. It seems that there is effort being put into upstreaming this too (despite a couple of unfortunately hitches :/) so we might be seeing this ready for general-purpose use quite soon!

Re: Linux Running on Apple M1

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There's a bit of competition now going between asahi and corellium. While most of the spicy tweets have been removed, there's a summary https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1350547056679477250

Essentially, while this project may be quicker to get visible results, they may not be able to release all the code kosher for merging upstream. It will be interesting to see the next steps.

Re: Linux Running on Apple M1

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This is cool but technically I'd say it would need to use the disk in the Mac to be running "on" the Mac.

Why's that? If I netboot Linux on my desktop PC, is it not running "on" my desktop PC?

Is the CPU/SoC not the thing on which then operating system is running?

Re: Linux Running on Apple M1

#10
A Raspberry Pi powered by something similar to the M1 or A14 bionic processor would be something. The Broadcom 1.5 GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 that powers the latest raspberry pi, is nothing compared to the new processor beasts from Apple.
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