> Perhaps it's too early to speculate, but with the recent release of information that Apple will be transitioning from Intel-based CPUs to their own, custom ARM chips, I wonder if anyone deeper in the know (pbrobinson, pwhalen, others?) could speak to the continuing of Fedora on the Mac platform? So we don't have any more knowledge at all around the Arm based Mac platforms. At the moment, based on the very little public available knowledge, it looks like that there won't be the ability to run bare metal OSes other than macOS but there will be the ability to run VMs and containers. >From a VM/container PoV I would expect, but have zero actual knowledge, that it should be a standard Arm interface, in the VM instance I suspect the interface will be a standard SBSA generic VM but no insight into whether it'll be a generic hypervisor interface that the likes of Parallels (I believe it was Parallels they used in the demo) just presents a GUI, and hence be the same across any of the potential vendors or whether there will be differences. I have no intention of applying to buy the developer HW, I'm sure there will be people in the Arm ecosystem that will, so time will tell but basically it's too early to know and that things will evolve with time. When the x86 Macs first launched you couldn't run Windows and they eventually introduced Boot Camp, they've said Boot Camp is out so I suspect, as I have suspected and stated would be the case ever since the rumours started a number of years ago, that from an OS/boot point of view that any Arm based Mac would look closer to iOS and locked down. From a security PoV this is actually the right thing to do, from a choice PoV less so. So long story short I'm sure we'll support the VM/container option of Fedora on Arm based Macs at some point, anything more than that is too early to tell. Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
