alt Hacker NewsI guess I'm missing something then. The Asahi blog says "Apple’s boot tooling will only work with what it considers to be a “valid” macOS installation inside an APFS container." Sounds very adversarial to "the ability to boot an arbitrary OS."
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zbentley • yesterday at 10:49 PM
It’s the difference between “there’s no published standards other than the reference implementation for some of the API” and “there’s no published standards and extremely monolithic reference implementation design coupled to proprietary blobs and considerable effort spent on signing/boot chain authentication to prevent third party implementations”. Apple is currently the former.
It basically just has to look like macOS in some trivial sense, it doesn't have to be macOS, there are no obstacles. The system is designed specifically to enable booting custom compiled kernels and former members of the Apple team have said booting other OSes was intentionally left open. The company just doesn't make any guarantees about that.