[noveltyaccount]

I really wish Apple would fund a small team to open source some documentation and drivers to help Asahi along. I know they won't, but I can dream. It would be a drop in the bucket for Apple but would cement their hardware as de facto for silicon valley engineers (even more so than today).

[jjtheblunt]

Apple's own hypervisor framework is close enough to what you said that i run Fedora and Arch Linux builds via the UTM app, set to use Apple Silicon virtualization (_not_ emulation), which is a wrapper around said framework.

it's excellent, and made me reformat and erase Asahi a couple years ago.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor

https://docs.getutm.app/installation/macos/

[noveltyaccount]

So osx is just a bootloader for Fedora?

[jjtheblunt]

the analogy (even if humorous) isn't exact, since i can have apple silicon's hypervisor running macos and fedora/arm and arch/arm all concurrently, and can have full desktop environments on the linux instances, full-screened to individual macos desktops.

[SamuelAdams]

They do, what Apple does release is referenced often in discussions.

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/f6217f89...

https://lore.kernel.org/asahi/c13d95d0-911f-48f6-b4ca-8a5e9a...