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> so if the new Mac chips are ARM compliant then the ARM linux builds should work That's not how it works. ARM is just the processor architecture. While Linux
by messe 6y ago
> so if the new Mac chips are ARM compliant then the ARM linux builds should work
That's not how it works. ARM is just the processor architecture. While Linux may very well support the processor, it's unlikely to support the rest of the hardware well, if at all.
- freedomben 6y agoyeah, but driver support has been a challenge for years on mac hardware (as I implied poorly) but there are ways to run if you tolerate some absurdities as a result of poor hardware support (like the fans running 100% all the time, battery draining from 100% to 0% in 60 mins, no wifi, etc). There are also workaround for some things like Broadcom where you can pull the firmware out of the windows driver. So you don't necessarily need the Linux kernel to work perfectly with all the hardware. But my question/point was, is there likely to a total show stopper now that you can't just tolerate?