Would love to see this mean the return of Bootcamp, but that's probably gone forever.

Boot camp is a windows problem. This can be done today on apple silicon but Microsoft dosent want to go through the effort to support it.

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bpoyner 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I imagine it would be a big lift. Asahi linux is managing through reverse engineering the hardware support, without any official documentation. Even with official documentation it would be a significant change from other aarch64 hardware.

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bigyabai 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Technically speaking, Bootcamp is an iBoot problem. Apple stopped shipping Macs with firmware UEFI which breaks 99% of generic OS installers out of the box.

Microsoft is pretty justified not wanting to support that, versus UEFI on OG Bootcamp. The majority of Linux distros don't ship image support for iBoot either.

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toast0 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> Apple stopped shipping Macs with firmware UEFI which breaks 99% of generic OS installers out of the box.

Did Apple ever support UEFI? I thought it was only ever EFI; no U.

	▲	bigyabai 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/uefi-firmware-secur... In any case, EFI is still well-supported by OS installers. iBoot is not.