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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by skohan on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:42PM (#25053637)
What's the meaningful difference from other ARM chips which would make this impossible?
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by redwall_hp on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:33PM (#25054928)
Apple's not going to ship drivers for Linux, and it's a SoC. So someone needs to somehow write an open source driver for Apple's proprietary black box of a GPU.

I suspect very little will work at all if someone can get Linux to boot on one, and it will be a very lengthy endeavor to get things up to being usable.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by YetAnotherNick on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:34PM (#25054583)
Which ARM chip based device can run linux without the manufacturer's drivers?
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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by hocuspocus on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:32PM (#25054571)
The bootloader and GPU mostly.
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