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Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Seems like this project might have missed a few steps along the way. This really should be a Microsoft effort.

Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Seems like this project might have missed a few steps along the way. This really should be a Microsoft effort. They just announced that they have Visual Studio compiling in ARM64 finally, so it's only a matter of time before the only thing standing in the way is backroom deals that we don't know about. Qualcomm? I mean, I do want to see Qualcomm ship their M1 competitor, but given the state of the economy and world recession we're about to enter, I am skeptical it would survive fat trimming cuts that are about to sweep the industry. The money for them is in mobile and automotive projects.

gpm 4y ago
Yes, the asahi linux people have had linux booting for quite awhile now. They're still working on all the drivers that you want for a good desktop operating system.
bri3d 4y ago
> Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Yes, https://asahilinux.org https://asahilinux.org . I think this is coming at about the right stage in the game - the Asahi folks have figured out the baseline needs for booting another OS and have a basic bootstrap loader and hypervisor (m1n1) as mentioned in the M1 Windows writeup. I think the OP writeup is fairly clear-eyed in terms of what needs doing - bring up the basic interrupt controller setup and IOMMU oddities needed to get UEFI and then the kernel to come up, and then start chipping away driver by driver until the system is usable. This is basically what Asahi did and it's worked out well for them.
- jarjoura 4y ago
  Oh, that's very cool, I haven't heard of them!
  - amarioguy 4y ago
    The Asahi folks are some of the best hackers I've talked to lol (project dev here) so definitely give their IRC a visit! Fun side note I volunteered to help fix up the Apple silicon I2C driver to use interrupts instead of polling, so I'm definitely also trying to get more involved with Asahi too
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gpm 4y ago

Yes, the asahi linux people have had linux booting for quite awhile now. They're still working on all the drivers that you want for a good desktop operating system.

bri3d 4y ago

> Can you dual boot any other OS on ARM Macs yet? Yes, https://asahilinux.org https://asahilinux.org . I think this is coming at about the right stage in the game - the Asahi folks have figured out the baseline needs for booting another OS and have a basic bootstrap loader and hypervisor (m1n1) as mentioned in the M1 Windows writeup. I think the OP writeup is fairly clear-eyed in terms of what needs doing - bring up the basic interrupt controller setup and IOMMU oddities needed to get UEFI and then the kernel to come up, and then start chipping away driver by driver until the system is usable. This is basically what Asahi did and it's worked out well for them.

jarjoura 4y ago
Oh, that's very cool, I haven't heard of them!
- amarioguy 4y ago
  The Asahi folks are some of the best hackers I've talked to lol (project dev here) so definitely give their IRC a visit! Fun side note I volunteered to help fix up the Apple silicon I2C driver to use interrupts instead of polling, so I'm definitely also trying to get more involved with Asahi too
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