Depends on the box. In general if there is a hardwired HDMI port it works, if it's an alt mode it doesn't yet. The feature pages give detail by hardware, heres a direct link to the M2 page https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M2-Series-Feature-Su...
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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
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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
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43 sourceshttps://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-Series-Feature-Su...
According to this page it should work on M1 MBP, but there is also a note about a specific patch released next week.
In Fedora Asahi RemixYou might like even more: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support which breaks it down by CPU and has some more detail.
It used to be rendered on the site, but it seems to have had a reshuffle with this release/announcement, or I can't find it now anyway.
In Fedora Asahi RemixUnless Fedora has patches that haven't (yet?) been upstreamed, you could probably find that information on https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
In Fedora Asahi Remix> They don't support variations of software at all. They support the hardware. [...] Asahi does not need to support applications at all.
From their FAQ page[1]:
> We will eventually release a remix of Arch Linux ARM, packaged for installation by end-users, as a distribution of the same name. The majority of the work resides in hardware support, drivers, and tools, and it will be upstreamed to the relevant projects. The distribution will be a convenient package for easy installation by end-users and give them access to bleeding-edge versions of the software we develop.
As distro maintainers, it is their job to make sure the applications they package work on the hardware they support. This includes submitting patches upstream when that is not the case, as application maintainers likely wouldn't want to support such a niche environment direc
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tly. So, yes, they rely on volunteers to fix issues, but they will likely have to support many applications themselves.
There is still a lot of broken software, as this list[2] is surely not exhaustive.
Regardless, all this amounts to less choice of software for the user. The Asahi team has already decided to stop supporting Xorg, and say what you will about Xorg, there will be many applications they realistically can't or won't support for whatever reason.
> Same deal for any other hardware manufacturer. [...] Really not much different to other hardware manufacturers since Linux started.
No, it's very different. First of all, the amount of Linux hackers who volunteered to reverse engineer the wide variety of hardware was orders of magnitude larger than the Asahi team. Even if they limit the amount of devices they support, modern computers are far more complex than in the early days of Linux. Regardless of how talented the Asahi team is, maintaining all the hardware of a modern computer is a sisyphean task for a small group of volunteers.
Secondly, hardware manufacturers could see the benefit of getting their hardware to run in Linux, and many eventually took over support from volunteers. Apple has shown no interest in doing so, and has historically been hostile to open source.
> Asahi devs have made it clear that Apple has chosen to avoid blocking installation of other operating systems.
The fact they allow installation of other operating systems today, doesn't mean that this decision couldn't change in the future. Services are a large part of their business, and allowing a group of hackers to use their hardware without being part of their software ecosystem may seem like a non-issue today, but if this group grows larger assuming projects like Asahi are successful, this might become a considerable loss of income which wouldn't be in their best interest.
> Apple has no issue with it.
Can you point me to an official ackgnowledgment of Asahi Linux by Apple? Or any indication that leaving this door open was a sign of good will, instead of a lack of interest in closing it? What makes you think they wouldn't eventually lock down Macs in the same way they do iPhones and iPads?
> ARM is a stable well supported platform for Linux
It's really not. A lot of software works, but when it doesn't, the user is SOL. As you can see on their Broken Software page[2], the major issue is precisely with AArch64 support. This should improve eventually, and Asahi is certainly a torchbearer in this scenario, but today it's yet another hurdle of using Apple hardware.
[1]: https://asahilinux.org/about/#is-this-a-linux-distribution
[2]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Broken-Software
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275 points · Open discussionThey're a small team, they can only handle/reverse-engineer the M1 as of now.
edit: looks like they are make bigger strides than I thought on M2 as well https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support#m2-p...
In Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max> Asahi Linux is work in progress. Many hardware components are not yet supported!
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
In Killing Windows 10 in 2025 could turn PCs into eWasteSee https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/HW%3AUSB-PD - some of the USB-C ports respond to USB PD Vendor-Defined Messages to trigger a bunch of debug features, including rebooting the SoC or configuring one of the internal UARTs to output to two pins on the USB-C connector.
In Serial adapter/reboot controller for Apple M1/M2The open bootloader didn't magically appear one night in Apple's git repository.
It boots in a notably different way than iOS machines do, and has some (AFAICT) pretty unique capabilities, including a fully-verified signed-boot of macOS partitions, while allowing third-party kernels at the same time.
Asahi's "Introduction to Apple Silicon" [0], and specifically "Security modes, Boot Policies, and machine ownership" paragraph outlines some of that, Apple's "Platform Security" [1] whitepaper does too.
Asahi's docs also explicitly state the same thing [2].
If you still don't think that shows significant amount of work and care were put into deliberately allowing third-party OS's to work on those machines, I don't think I can convince you otherwise.
[0]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Appl...
[1]: https://support.appl
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> _clearly_ spent a lot of time and resources to make third-party OSes viable on Apple Sillicon Macs.
This actually isn't clear to me -- can you explain? Besides keeping an open bootloader [0], I'm not aware of any affirmative actions Apple has taken.
[0]: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Open-OS-Ecosystem-on...
In The first conformant M1 GPU driverThanks. How does Apple bootstrap the system in the first place when inserting a blank SSD? Or perhaps you bought a replacement part?
I don't see how that could be done if it is true—that the system is bricked/unrecoverable if the macos partition is lost. Surely it can boot from USB or something?
Perhaps not, this wiki page linked above implies the iboot can't handle usb or external storage:
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-vs.-PC-Boot
In Fedora Asahi Remix first impressionsYou can find all that information here: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
I will say the the battery life on my Mac Studio sucks - as soon as I unplug it from power, it turns off.
In Fedora Asahi Remix first impressionsI think so, X13s can become extremely hot and are slower.
Only things still lacking for single machine use is speakers, microphone and webcam:
https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support
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