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Asahi Linux documentation

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Asahi Linux documentation

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marcan of the Asahi Linux project got into a discussion on reddit about this, and says that when it comes to hardware, you just can’t know. > I can't prove the absence of a…

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Observed mentions: 2020-12-30 09:47:00 UTC to 2026-04-23 11:53:56 UTC.

0102030402020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 4 submissions, 17 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 31 mentions; 3 submissions, 28 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 43 mentions; 2 submissions, 41 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21417
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC31328
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC43241
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Asahi Linux documentation repository This is the Asahi Linux documentation repository. Documentation structure Our documentation is organised into categories. alt: Alternative operating system/Linux distribution support documentation should go here. fw: Documentation on vendor-controlled firmware and firmware interfaces should go here. hw: Any documentation related to hardware belongs here. This is further split into subcategories: cpu: Application processor documentation devices: Documentation relating to specific Mac models peripherals: hardware found in Apple Silicon Macs but not the SoC itself soc: hardware blocks integrated into Apple Silicon SoCs platform: Documentation that applies across the Apple Silicon platform project: Project admin documents and stuff unrelated to hardware or software sw: Documentation for non-firmware software Usage The site is generated using Zensical. Zensical is installed as a Python package. If your distro does not package it, it is available via pip. To build the docs locally for testing, simply install Zensical and run $ zensical serve The website is rebuilt by the CI on every commit and served via GitHub Pages.
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> I admit, however, complete ignorance on how I’m supposed to install, say, Windows, on an M* Mac. As far as I knew, the T2 security chip or whatever is the decider of that, and I wasn’t aware that Apple made any promises that they’d allow such a thing as an OS that isn’t signed with Apple’s certificates. What you’re saying is news to me so I’ll have to look it up. The problem with Windows is that Microsoft doesn’t sell an ARM installer directly to you. Here’s what the Linux situation looks like with a single command to install it: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/ The process is described in detail here: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Open-OS-Ecosystem-on... The part you’re probably most interested in is here, where they describe how the different volumes use encryption so you can boot an unsigned OS which doesn’t have access to yo
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ur primary macOS storage but can use a shared volume to exchange data intentionally, and some discussion about how Apple has made this easier over time: https://jamesb192.github.io/asahi-wiki-build/Apple-Platform-...
In iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos
> even if we can't verify that their sanctioned use case is secure, the cloud OS could be a great step forward in secure inference and secure clouds, which people could independently host or build an independent derivative of Yes, the tech industry loves to copy Apple :) Asahi Linux has a good overview of on-device boot chain security, https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Apple-Platform-Secur... > My main concern right now is that if virtualization is employed in their actual deployment, there could be a backdoor that passes keys from secure enclaves in still-proprietary parts of the OSes running on user devices to a hypervisor we didn't audit that can access the containers. We’ll release a PCC Virtual Research Environment: a set of tools and images that simulate a PCC node on a Mac with Apple silicon, and that can boot a version of
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PCC software minimally modified for successful virtualization. This seems to imply that PCC nodes are bare-metal. Could a PCC node be simulated on iPad Pro with M4 Apple Silicon?
In Private Cloud Compute: A new frontier for AI privacy in the cloud
adamomada·Feb 4, 2024Recommendation phrase
marcan of the Asahi Linux project got into a discussion on reddit about this, and says that when it comes to hardware, you just can’t know. > I can't prove the absence of a silicon backdoor on any machine, but I can say that given everything we know about AS systems (and we know quite a bit), there is no known place a significant backdoor could hide that could completely compromise my system. And there are several such places on pretty much every x86 system (Long) thread starts here, show hidden comments for the full discussion https://old.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/13voeey/what_is... I highly recommend reading this if you’re interested https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Appl...
In A brief history of the U.S. trying to add backdoors into encrypted data (2016)

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