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by angelsl 2759 days ago
Windows works on the new MacBook not because it has special drivers for NVMe-via-T2 but because Apple trusts Microsoft's EFI key.

So no, stop it with all this "Linux works if you just disable Secure Boot" nonsense. It doesn't. You can run Linux from a USB key, sure, but it can't access the internal NVMe SSD!
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comex 2759 days ago
Judging by this post:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/479544

It looks like some kind of driver issue, not an intentional lockout.

To corroborate this, while I don’t have personal experience running Linux on T2 devices, I do know it’s possible to build xnu from source and boot the resulting unsigned kernel (in “No Security” mode) without the disk disappearing.

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geofft 2759 days ago
Please provide evidence for this causal link. It is true that (with Boot Camp enabled) the firmware trusts the Windows key and not the MS third-party key. It is true that Windows can access the disk and Linux cannot. It is not obvious that these are related.
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