Re: Freebsd on M1 Macs

From: Kyle Evans <kevans_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 23:52:45 UTC 
On 11/26/23 16:04, Jason Bacon wrote:
> On 11/26/23 13:22, Joe B wrote:
>>
>> I know this is a longshot but I'm going to ask I know MacOS is a BSD 
>> but we all know it's very sugarcoated and doesn't look like a BSD.
>>
>> Question will real freeBSD ever come to the m1 Mac's. I got a 16 inch 
>> mbp with good specs just taking up space right now
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> ~ Joe B
> 
> I assume you've seen https://wiki.freebsd.org/AppleSilicon.  Not sure 
> how up-to-date it is.  The wikis tend to lag behind reality in my 
> experience.
> 

Yeah, this is a bit out of date.  SMP and watchdog bits are good, along 
with some subset of the USB ports (IOMMU is a WIP).  With the branch I'm 
working on right now, we can go full multi-user on a USB root.  Work
stalled for a bit because there was a general disagreement with how we 
integrated parts of the interrupt control into the interrupt framework, 
but I've been given a vision recently of a clear path forward, so 
hopefully we can move forward with that and unblock upstreaming some of 
the other bits.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans