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They've done the userspace bringup for linux since apple silicon servers allegedly exist. The drivers exist already so just throwing the device tree over the wall can't be that hard. Nobody is asking for systemready/UEFI or mainline linux.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200658399-0645/linux-ke...

I suspect that they might be changing their mind about upstreaming?

Eh, they probably have enough server hardware/infrastructure and potentially custom accelerators and other hardware that staffing a team makes sense

Quick web search says they at least need some kernel developers for virtualized Linux on macOS

PureDarwin doesn't work on any of the M-series machines, and according to the Github commit log, hasn't been updated since 2024.

Which doesn't even boot on modern Apple hardware without all the closed source bits...