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LoganDarktoday at 1:08 AM4 repliesview on HN

Apple has gone through tremendous effort to enable alternative operating systems on Apple Silicon Macs: https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/open-os-interop/


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nvme0n1p1today at 2:59 AM

Are you sure you linked the right page? This looks like a list of workarounds the Asahi team had to figure out.

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obliotoday at 4:19 AM

> tremendous efforts

Tremendous efforts would be to publish reference manuals for all their hardware components.

Apple is doing the bare minimum, which is to not build 10km tall walls around its walled garden.

But in the modern day of walled gardens, that's viewed as generosity.

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bigyabaitoday at 1:59 AM

Most of those accommodations are for macOS, and make very few (if any) concessions for alternative operating systems. We're talking Qualcomm-tier effort.

Intel and AMD set the standard for "tremendous effort" bringing up support for alternative OSes. Nvidia follows behind, and Apple's support is (somehow) behind Nvidia's foot-dragging.

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foltiktoday at 3:27 AM

Absolutely not. They put in the literal bare minimum possible effort short of locking down the platform entirely.

You get a jmp to some arm64 instructions of your choosing, with a bunch of CPU features locked out.

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