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Just to add, Apple has helped a little bit in the form of adding a raw image boot mode that wouldn't be useful internally but helps Asahi 's boot process not br
by enragedcacti 4y ago
Just to add, Apple has helped a little bit in the form of adding a raw image boot mode that wouldn't be useful internally but helps Asahi
's boot process not break in the future.
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1471799568807636994 https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1471799568807636994
- gjsman-1000 4y agoApple also helped by not copying the iOS Boot mechanism to macOS, which they could have. This entire "Permissive Security" mode allowing for installation without jailbreaking took extra work to make and was not necessary otherwise.
- humanwhosits 4y agoThey probably want to entice arm windows and chromeos support longer term
- nicoburns 4y agoReading between the lines, Apple wanted Windows support at release, but Microsoft signed an exclusivity agreement with Qualcomm for windows on ARM so they weren't able to make that happen even if they wanted to.
- srmatto 4y agoIs that ever set to expire?
- nicoburns 4y agoYes, quite soon (this year? next year?) IIRC
- IntelMiner 4y agoIt's fair to speculate that Microsoft likely has Windows already running on M1 machines somewhere deep within their labs. Even if it's just some engineers doing it "in their free time" Wonder what Qualcomm had to do to get that agreement though. All signs seem to point to Qualcomm being absolutely poisonous to work with and their ARM offerings being uncompetitive with Apple's now