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That's simply not true. Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon Macs without a jailbreak. This is according to the Asahi Linux docs.
by simonh 5y ago
That's simply not true. Apple allows booting unsigned/custom kernels on Apple Silicon Macs without a jailbreak. This is according to the Asahi Linux docs.
- GhettoComputers 5y agoStrange, T1 didn’t.
- GeekyBear 5y agoAlso not true. Someone just needed to write Linux drivers for that hardware.
- saagarjha 5y agoNo, Apple’s security coprocessors were not designed to be unlocked (but now can, via checkra1n).
- GeekyBear 5y agoThe thing that initially kept Linux from installing on those Macs was the lack of a driver for the SSD controller which is located on that T1/T2 chip. https://t2linux.org/ https://t2linux.org/
- simonh 5y agoI think that's understandable, it's primarily a security chip so if you're ever going to lock anything down, that would be it. OK, from a purist perspective that's arguable, but I think it's also arguable allowing unsigned code would make it less secure. Anyway you can still run another OS on a Mac with a T1.
- lovelyviking 5y ago>That's simply not true. "Strictly speaking, the things can boot off of DFU (USB device mode) too, but to make that useful for regular boot you need to ask Apple, as currently you cannot boot a normal OS like that as far as I know, only their signed restore bundles (which is how you fix an M1 Mac if you wipe the SSD)." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26116017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26116017)