This works, tried last night in my M1, you need to install the fairydust kernel and reboot. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/lacamar/fairydust-ke...

My Dell external monitor (+builtin usb/ethernet hub) connected via usb-c thunderbolt started working right away.

My problem is I can't use my 2nd external monitor. :)

Also no luks fde support which is a big deal, basically I can't take it anywhere.

Huh. Thank you for the info!

I am always looking at this "Device Support" page [1] and it's still red there. I even have a calendar reminder to check it out every once in a while, but if it's not being updated I might drop my calendar reminder then :)

[1] https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support

I developed the habit that letting AI assistant look up information like this for me. It might be hidden in the docs I usually over-look.

> no luks fde support

You can get an "unecrypted boot, encrypted root" setup though.

https://davidalger.com/posts/fedora-asahi-remix-on-apple-sil...

Did you consider that? I am personally using that and feeling pretty good about it, but maybe I am missing something?

Thanks for sharing, I'll try that.

Oh wait, there is also this tool which automates some of that. I think I used that tool instead of the blog article itself. It's the same idea though.

https://github.com/osx-tools/asahi-encrypt

Sometimes this can be because the people working on one aspect of the project are not the same as the people working on another, or the same number of people, and also maybe supporting later chips is less problematic than supporting external displays. The project as a whole doesn’t just work on one problem at a time in priority order.

[delayed]

The entire section "Kept you waiting, huh?" is about this and some of the background is really interesting explaining why things are as they are. Here's just the last bit:

> Luckily for us, Sven was up to the task of dealing with all this nonsense. It just took slightly longer than expected! While the patchset to enable Thunderbolt was sent upstream first (another massive win for us!), we have also pulled it into our downstream kernel and are now shipping it to users!

> But there is a catch. Currently, only USB3, XDomain and Thunderbolt Networking are supported. You can plug in USB devices or connect two Thunderbolt computers together and make them ping each other, but that’s about it. PCIe and DisplayPort tunnelling — required for most Thunderbolt docks — are not supported. Yet. Watch this space.

> An enormous amount of gratitude is owed to Sven, who has stuck with this thankless chore for nearly 5 years in between all of his other incredible work.

Thank you, Sven!

If they somehow can support DP-ALT and MST DP(which even Apple does not support), i'm sold.