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Which is somewhat useless because it doesn't properly support ACPI/UEFI so that you can boot other operating systems

Linux on apple silicon is a thing though: https://asahilinux.org/

True, but they had to implement their own bootloader chain and because of such overhead they need a lot of effort to port to each new apple SoC generation

Ok.. and? That's job someone has already done, so what does it matter?

From what I've understood there's significant backwards compatibility for the new SoCs, so the significant work they need to do is to support new features, not getting things running.

That is the reality for huge amount of ARM powered hardware, unless you fancy running vendor forks of kernel, u-boot, etc.

True, but not for all arm powered hardware. Especially the more expansive ones. The ampere altra based boards for example do support booting an uefi iso just like on amd64 PCs.

Look out for Systemready

Wasn’t booting other operating systems supported from early on (two months after release of M1)? It was reverse engineering the graphics hardware that took time and effort.

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