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Yes, this is a standard UEFI feature. The firmware basically hands off a structure indicating horizontal/vert resolution, pixel depth and a buffer. Which is fi

Yes, this is a standard UEFI feature. The firmware basically hands off a structure indicating horizontal/vert resolution, pixel depth and a buffer. Which is fine until you need to change the mode, or start doing heavy BLT/etc operations. At which point your machine will feel like something from the early 1990s. So yes, you can get a full linux DE running with mesa and CPU GLES emulation, but its not really particularly usable.

DCKing 6y ago
It's worth noting that the M1 does not use EFI like Intel Macs do, so the kernel would still need to boot on this proprietary new mechanism. Apple previously indicated that the M1 Macs boot using a derivative of the iPhone/iPad boot procedure. There's a reasonable chance it'll still have something like the EFI buffer allocation mechanism, but it'll not be using a mainline standard. While it sucks that Apple ditched EFI, the good news is that it's probably reasonably well understood since Linux has already been booted on an iPhone 7 using Checkra1n [1] (and apparently with framebuffer support too!). [1]: https://tuxphones.com/iphone-7-now-boots-postmarketos-linux/ https://tuxphones.com/iphone-7-now-boots-postmarketos-linux/