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What's the meaningful difference from other ARM chips which would make this impossible?



Apple's not going to ship drivers for Linux, and it's a SoC. So someone needs to somehow write an open source driver for Apple's proprietary black box of a GPU.

I suspect very little will work at all if someone can get Linux to boot on one, and it will be a very lengthy endeavor to get things up to being usable.


Which ARM chip based device can run linux without the manufacturer's drivers?


The bootloader and GPU mostly.




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