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Comment by MaxLeiter | Hacker News Reader

checkra1n (current jailbreak for devices with A10 or older chips) is based on a BootROM exploit, so thankfully I can keep my iPad on newer iOS versions and remain jailbroken.

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> A10 or older chips

Actually it's A11 or older, which is even better.

Do you know if checkra1n could eventually allow Linux based operating systems like Android or Debian to run on Apple mobile hardware?

Who's going to write the drivers?

Yeah, I sunk a few hours into trying to get Docker running on a jailbroken iPhone. It’d be awesome if all the arm work done for Raspi (et al) since the last hey day of Jailbreaking, could be easily ported to arm64 (Darwin)

Raspberry PI runs the Linux kernel, hence Docker is a relatively easy lift.

iPhone runs Darwin, which has none of the low level primitives in the kernel (cgroups, namespaces, etc) that Linux does, so good luck with that!

Perhaps the same folks who previously had Android running on the iPhone 3G a decade ago:

https://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-on-iphone...

The 3G had a commodity Samsung CPU core and 'off the shelf' third party subsidiary components, the drivers for which were available. Modern Apple custom in-house chips not so much.

It is possible, and I believe a few of the developers of checkra1n/some of the community has expressed interest in running Linux. Whether or not it happens who knows.

I was disappointed to see that the authors have decided to keep it closed source for now. Has anyone done a security audit of it?

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