Re: For your radar: Apple Silicon support

Thanks for flagging this, Michael. Very interesting!

Greg

On Thu, Aug 8, 2024 at 7:28 PM Michael Dexter <editor@callfortesting.org>
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> In preparing for the FreeBSD on ARM64 talk I gave at FOSSY.us, I
> refreshed my knowledge of the available systems that fill the "bathtub"
> between the countless phones we all own and the many ARM-based servers
> from Ampere, Cavium, and the like.
>
> "ARM64 Developer Workstations" remain a challenge of cost, availability,
> or both, with one exception: Apple Silicon systems. They are plentiful
> and very, very fast, even their entry-level models.
>
> The Asahi Linux project has done much of the heavy lifting for Apple
> Silicon support and the first step of using OpenBSD on Apple Silicon is
> to install the Asahi boot loader.
>
> Kyle Evans is one of the best resources available for the state of
> FreeBSD on this platform but has made it clear that he alone cannot move
> this work forward at a meaningful pace.
>
> With bhyve now working on ARM64, reportedly the M2 and M3 CPUs support
> nested virtualization and will be exposed to the user on the M3 in the
> next version of macOS.
>
> Hopefully I am not alone in finding this very exciting and I simply ask
> that you put it on your collective radar for consideration for future
> developer attention!
>
> All the best,
>
> Michael Dexter
>
>

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