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points by pcwalton 2 days ago | 0 comments

You're never going to be able to get the Apple code off an Apple Silicon Mac anyway, because of the enormous amount of proprietary firmware that the OS has to interface with. Apple Silicon devices offload an exceptional amount of hardware functionality to firmware blobs that the OS just sends messages to. Removing the macOS container wouldn't change this.

[–] y1n0 2 days ago

Reversing said blobs is only a few tokens away.

[–] what 2 days ago

Keep us posted. I assume you have a few tokens to spare.

[–] nout 2 days ago

Linuxes are now running up to M3 CPUs (and also A18, which is funny).

[–] Shank 2 days ago

Can you explain why this is funny?

[–] solyin 2 days ago

So we can have iPhones that run Linux.

[–] Shank 1 day ago

iPhone can’t boot Linux. But there is the Macbook Neo, which runs the A18. You would need a low level exploit to compromise the chain of trust very early and the Asahi bring up work doesn’t include the touch and mobile phone components needed for iOS.