Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report: M3 Support and Apple Silicon Boot Challenges
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Asahi Linux's progress report for Linux 7.1 details ongoing work porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs. The report covers M3 chip progress, Apple firmware bugs, and technical challenges like boot picker integration. It explains how Apple's boot tooling only recognizes macOS installations in APFS containers, requiring workarounds for Asahi Linux to appear in the boot picker. The piece is a technical update aimed at the developer community following the project's reverse-engineering and driver development efforts.
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· 3 pulledWhen you long-press the power button on your Mac to bring up the boot picker (or use the Startup Disk application), what you see listed as Asahi is not actually the partition with the operating system on it.
Apple's boot tooling will only work with what it considers to be a 'valid' macOS installation inside an APFS container.
So that we can use Apple's bootloader and avoid needing users to run commands from Recovery every time they want to use
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