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Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice by my123 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @06:35AM (#26327100)
It does, and it's called Arm SystemReady.

UEFI + ACPI is required on Arm if you want to boot Windows or RHEL/CentOS, which do not even try to boot on non-standardised 64-bit Arm systems.

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Re:Linux Desktop on Apple Silicon/M1 in Practice by Vogtinator on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @08:01AM (#26327743)
Same for SLES/openSUSE, except for some platforms (RPi) where they use u-boot to provide EFI.
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