Not ready for prime time
Good news for Linux fans who want to buy a new Mac and try it out. The Asahi Linux team was able to boot the Linux 6.2 kernel on his M-series hardware and is still working on making it usable. Currently, it’s not possible to run major distros perfectly on M1 or M2, but that should change in the not too distant future.
The main hurdles are that there are currently no popular ARM64 distributions shipping 16K kernels, and Linux needs built-in 16kB page size support to work properly. Now the team is working on a tool that he can add to support 16kB page sizes, and to avoid this issue entirely he hopes that support for 4K size kernel builds will be developed soon. I hope
I won’t be booting from a USB disk this year. The team expects it to be the minimum amount of time required to complete the reverse engineering of Apple’s command and silicon. Two years could be a more likely timeline. Hopefully this is a bit pessimistic and M1 powered devices will be able to run at least some Linux distributions soon.
