Comment by smoldesu
4 years ago
It's a feature they do need though...? They test their hardware on Linux, if it doesn't work properly then they can potentially lose money. This is a random internal change that just so happened to align with the Asahi project. If they were trying to help, they'd let us know. It strikes me as desperation to call this a tacitly helpful move on their behalf.
> It's a feature they do need though...?
That is an assertion with no evidence to support it, and lots to do the opposite (starting with the fact that this appeared a year after the initial M1 public avail).
> They test their hardware on Linux, if it doesn't work properly then they can potentially lose money.
That doesn't make any sense, apple does not support Linux on their machine (as demonstrated by Asahi having been working on that for more than a year now).
And even if they did "test their hardware on linux", that would have no relevance to the issue and change: Apple can build mach-o linux kernel files in whatever fashion they need, that is quite literally what Asahi did. TFA states that unambiguously and they're the Asahi project lead, they'd know.