Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective
by xenadu02 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:32AM
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The easy path on M1 would have been to lock everything down. Use the same iBoot phones use, the same kernel configuration, and call it a day.
It takes a lot of engineering work to make more permissive security modes work. To re-architect booting. To make external drive booting work. To make developing kernel extensions on production systems work. To allow signing your own boot blob. Work that 99% of users don't even understand let alone care about.
If that isn't enough evidence then nothing ever will be.
It takes a lot of engineering work to make more permissive security modes work. To re-architect booting. To make external drive booting work. To make developing kernel extensions on production systems work. To allow signing your own boot blob. Work that 99% of users don't even understand let alone care about.
If that isn't enough evidence then nothing ever will be.