I Came, I Prompted, I Left Part 1: Building a Hypervisor for the MacBook Neo

Great read. This is (unbelievably) impressive. Both from the model and the human. Congratulations. I also liked the postscriptum about the GPU driver.

Mac hardware is some of the best there is, but I lost faith in macOS around 2015 when I experienced a bug where XNU would shut down my device without warning if the wireless driver produced an invalid packet. (The shutdown code was in the open-source XNU part of Darwin. I don't know why the invalid packet was produced, perhaps there was a hardware issue, but the response shouldn't have been to hard reset the device immediately.)

Running Linux on this hardware, and being to use most of its capabilities, is awesome. Thanks to all the AsahiLinux contributors (directly and indirectly) for their work.

This is great. I've been trying to get Linux on my M4 Pro mini with moderate success (NVMe and all cores working, but display and wifi only via USB adapters), and recently it's been a slow process trying to get the hypervisor running far enough to watch macOS bring up the hardware. These resources should help a lot, and it's probably time to swap out Opus for Astra.

Hey, I enjoyed reading through your blog entry. What do you see as the natural conclusion of this work so far? How far do you think you would be interested in taking it, provided enough tokens and time?

I'm happy to answer any questions :)