Comment by garaetjjte

>Apple decided to not block the use of custom kernels with the M1.

More like deliberately modified their design to allow it.

>Corellium (which currently has 20 employees) has been working on figuring out how Apple processors work since 2017

I don't think Corellium did have much effect on the Asahi upstreaming effort, they just posted haphazardly patched up kernel tree which they were using for validation of their virtualization platform. Majority of their patches weren't suitable for upstream submission.