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Re:Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead by inkyoto on Thursday February 13, 2025 @10:45PM (#43044612)
> Asahi Linux is similar, given how hostile and undocumented Apple Silicon is, […]

«Undocumented» – yes, but «hostile» is an emotionally charged term that elicits a strong negative reaction; more significantly, though, it constitutes a flagrant misrepresentation of the veritable truth as stipulated within the resignation letter itself:

  When Apple released the M1, I realized that making it run Linux was my dream project. The technical challenges were the same as my console homebrew projects of the past (in fact, much bigger), but this time, the platform was already open - there was no need for a jailbreak, and no drama and entitled users who want to pirate software to worry about.
Which is consistent with marcan's multiple previous blog posts and comments on here. Porting Linux (as well as NetBSD, OpenBSD) onto Apple Silicon has been no different from porting Linux/*BSD onto SPARC, MIPS, HP-PA and other platforms.

Also, if you had a chance to reverse-engineer a closed source system, you would have known that «hostile» has a very specific meaning in such a context as it refers to a system that has been designed to resist the reverse-engineering attempts. No such resistance has been observed on the Apple Silion computing contraptions.

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Re:Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead by tcmart14 on Friday February 14, 2025 @12:20AM (#43045109)
I also think calling it hostile is a little far. I recall Hector making comments of, "yea, even though is not greatly documented, it does things quiet a few things the way I would expect" and I believe even applauded Apple on a few thing. I wanna recall it was specifically around the booting.
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Re:Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead by bayindirh on Friday February 14, 2025 @04:03AM (#43046372)
> No such resistance has been observed on the Apple Silion computing contraptions.

I think they even left a "direct boot from image" (or something similar) mode as a small door to allow Asahi Linux development, if not to accelerate a little bit without affecting their own roadmap. Even Hector tweeted about it himself!

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