Sammy Arson, flirting with the hard left :3How long until someone gets Linux running on a MacBook Neo?
awful name though
heheheheh running matrix on my macbook neo heheh get it
Houl Floof 
Doridian@theresnotime You got any white rabbit friends around you could follow? :3
Terence Eden@theresnotime TBH, I'd probably get one if Ashai ever comes to it.
R@theresnotime unfortunately there's some major issues which requires someone with spoons to do some hardcore low-level platform work
specifically: the reverse-engineering tooling (which runs macos in a VM in order to intercept and record how macos interacts with the hardware) is not compatible with changes apple made to the boot flow
if you boot a mach-o boot object, the bootloader automatically loads "SPTM" (a piece of code which enforces page table permissions such as W^X) and sets up the MMU. SPTM uses some very special apple-proprietary instruction set extensions. this isn't compatible with how the RE tooling currently works
if you boot a "raw" boot object, the bootloader gives you full control with MMU off (i.e. W+X is allowed), but the apple-proprietary instructions are all disabled. this isn't compatible with booting macOS
@r i remain so thankful folks like you who understand this shit a) exist and b) work to reverse engineer Apple (etc.) stuff
@theresnotime oh we weren't involved in this part at all. just re-explaining what sven described
Ori 
(Valerie)@theresnotime probably won't haopen because even on their M series chips Apple started drastically deviating from the ARM spec (thats why Asahi only runs on M1 & 2) so we assume that their mobile chips have even more special sauce in them.
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