• [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Gentoo Asahi Project

    From Mart Raudsepp@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 28 20:00:01 2023
    Hello!

    I have created the Gentoo Asahi Project to organize the enablement of
    Apple Silicon Mac machines in Gentoo via the main ::gentoo tree as much
    as possible.
    New approaches for the install process are also going to be a topic.

    Wiki page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Asahi



    Mart

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  • From Alexey Sokolov@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 29 22:50:02 2023
    28.12.2023 18:49, Mart Raudsepp пишет:
    Hello!

    I have created the Gentoo Asahi Project to organize the enablement of
    Apple Silicon Mac machines in Gentoo via the main ::gentoo tree as much
    as possible.
    New approaches for the install process are also going to be a topic.

    Wiki page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Asahi



    Mart

    Hi!

    Gentoo already can be installed there using Prefix. Does this project
    instead replace macOS on the machine completely?

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  • From Mart Raudsepp@21:1/5 to Alexey Sokolov on Fri Dec 29 23:10:01 2023
    On Fri, 2023-12-29 at 21:44 +0000, Alexey Sokolov wrote:
    28.12.2023 18:49, Mart Raudsepp пишет:
    Hello!

    I have created the Gentoo Asahi Project to organize the enablement
    of
    Apple Silicon Mac machines in Gentoo via the main ::gentoo tree as
    much
    as possible.
    New approaches for the install process are also going to be a
    topic.

    Wiki page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Asahi



    Mart

    Hi!

    Gentoo already can be installed there using Prefix. Does this project
    instead replace macOS on the machine completely?

    Yes. This is for running Linux natively on them, but you are generally
    advised to keep macOS as well (in a dual-boot kind of setup) for future non-distributable firmware upgrade purposes.

    https://asahilinux.org/ is the upstream project and there is already https://github.com/chadmed/asahi-overlay and https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Installing-Gentoo-with-LiveCD

    This official projects first goals are to review and bring much of the
    overlays content to the main ::gentoo tree, keep maintaining it
    (together with asahi-overlay contributors) and work towards new easier installation approaches.

    Personally I use Gentoo Linux (with the asahi-sources kernel) on my M2
    Mac Studio as my main machine with fully HW accelerated GNOME, only
    booting to macOS for occasional iOS work or HDR support use. My macOS
    visits are painful though, and I might end up looking at Gentoo prefix
    to make it less painful, albeit I suspect the iOS work will be over and
    HDR working in linux for me sooner than I can get to looking into that.

    My main motivation was a completely silent machine which is more
    powerful than my Ryzen 3700X - big package compilation times are now
    2.5 times faster, mostly from core count. But it's also for (non-
    gentoo) development in rust.


    Mart

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