News Apple's M1 Chip Boots NetBSD Operating System

[Admin]

Jared McNeill has managed to the boot NetBSD operating system on Apple's M1 custom silicon processor, adding another platform to Apple's silicon.

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[delaro]

That shouldn't have been hard it's worked on ARM and RISC for years 🤷‍♂️

 

[artk2219]

That shouldn't have been hard it's worked on ARM and RISC for years 🤷‍♂️

You'd think that but Apple's current lack of complete documentation makes this chip a bit of a block box, which is intentional. So getting new things to work requires more work than normal as you cant just RTFM up an answer when you run into a technical issue.

 

[ggascoigne]

Slight clarification, NetBSD isn't a "UNIX-like" operating system, it's one of the few OSs around that can actually claim to be UNIX, period. Darwin, AIX, HP-UX, FreeBSD and NetBSD, it's a pretty short list.