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relevant comments from Hector Martin over on Mastodon at https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/112754303893998372

> Reminder that not all platforms support or, indeed, can support kexec() sanely at all. Like ours. kexec() requires the ability to reset all peripheral state and that is impossible on Apple Silicon because firmware is loaded by earlier boot stages and cannot be re-loaded later to the reset state without a full system reboot.




Sounds like Apple sorted itself out by themselves, while suffering from the limitation.

So the correct response to this concern is "Okay. And? Apple will just sort itself out for themselves". I mean, what else can anyone do? Nothing because "but Apple?"


This discussion is about how to boot Linux, not how Apple's OSes do things on their devices. Booting Linux on a Macbook is the affected scenario.




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