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yes. However that Linux will not be very useful because there are no drivers for the machine and Apple is not documenting any of their hardware to the point tha
by pilif 6y ago
yes. However that Linux will not be very useful because there are no drivers for the machine and Apple is not documenting any of their hardware to the point that people could easily write drivers.
This will be a huge reverse-engineering effort.
- DoomHotel 6y agoWe went through that last time with their sad attempts at UEFI compliance. So long as they allow the possibility it will happen. In other news, they allow firewalls to work as designed in this release. So some kind of sanity may be taking hold.
- pilif 6y ago>So long as they allow the possibility it will happen. AFAIK there is still no support for the T2 disk controller even though T2 macs are a thing for 4 years now. I'm sure it will eventually happen, but don't hold your breath.
- my123 6y agoAFAIK it got merged a while back: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/66341331ba0d2de4ff421cdc401a1e34de50502a https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/66341331ba0d2de4ff4... (for Linux 5.4) It isn't even a big patch.
- marcan_42 6y agoThis myth keeps coming up. The T2 disk controller is just a normal NVMe controller with a couple nonstandard quirks. There is upstream support now. It took a while to work out because nobody sat down and got it done on day 1. This could've been worked out within 24 hours of the T2 macs' release, working at the pace at which I expect to be working on M1 bring-up.
- pabs3 6y agoThe reverse engineering is full-steam-ahead, a post about the GPU: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-1.html