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Feat: Add apple silicon support(boilerplate)
Hey @HikariKnight @EyeCantCU @KyleGospo
This is my first contribution to this awesome project, and I’m super pumped to share my approach to bringing Apple Silicon support to Bazzite. ~~Here's the game plan:
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Asahi Linux Integration:
I'll add Asahi Linux as a submodule to keep their drivers and kernel updates in sync with Bazzite. No reinventing the wheel—just piggybacking on their amazing work. -
Kernel Tweaks:
I’ll link Asahi’s prebuilt drivers into Bazzite’s build system and introduce a dedicated kernel config for Apple Silicon. Smooth and simple. -
Automation for Updates:
Updates to Asahi will be automated via a script or maybe even some CI magic, so we stay cutting-edge without breaking a sweat.
This is still a draft PR because I wanted to get your thoughts before diving into the nitty-gritty. Suggestions, feedback, or dad jokes—send them my way! ~~
Boiler plate code for apple silicon Closes #2184
Cheers,
Nripesh Niketan (The new kid in the repo 🛠️)
@NripeshN if you need hardware to test on, I have an M1 Mac that I'm not currently doing much of anything with. Happy to be a part of helping with this new endeavor as well!
@NripeshN if you need hardware to test on, I have an M1 Mac that I'm not currently doing much of anything with. Happy to be a part of helping with this new endeavor as well!
I am currently on an M2 Max MacBook Pro. I can test on my hardware once I figure out how I should be testing stuff lol.
I don't know anything about Bazzite, but my understanding is that it's composed from Fedora packages. If that's the case, I would strongly recommend not building the Asahi integration packages from source, and instead just reusing the ones we have in Fedora Asahi Remix. You might find https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-asahi-remix/how-its-made/ and https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-asahi-remix/deviations/ useful, and those point to all the various coprs and packages where you can find the ones we use in the Remix.
cc @Conan-Kudo
This is already being worked on separately by @travier, and I would prefer that enabling AS support is coordinated with him and the Fedora Asahi SIG.
I've started publishing Asahi images at https://github.com/fedora-asahi-atomic-remix/images. It's not "announced" nor official as we have to figure out the naming convention first (https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/519).
Ideally, Universal Blue images would build on top of those just like it's done for x86_64.
@NripeshN Probably makes sense to base your PR on the images being built using @travier's repo.
Any updates on this @travier? I see the images are building, but I see you have an open issue on getting it to actually boot on real hardware.
The images work (I tested them on my M2 mac), but there is currently no way to easily install them as you saw in: https://github.com/fedora-asahi-remix-atomic-desktops/images/issues/1
Seems those images are now available, can we modify this to build from them so we can merge into testing?
I have a very rough draft here successfully building arm64 images based on atomic asahi. Looking for feedback, especially how best to get fex/box64 set up ootb to get x86 binaries installed at build time and running seamlessly
https://github.com/xXJSONDeruloXx/bazzite/pull/4
What might be the path forward here, as @travier mentioned, would we want a general ublue image build that we can make a bazzite image container file around? in my base off Asahi directly, I have a lot of odd workarounds whereas a semi centralized base image might be more maintainable. Theres also the question of how to install but one beast at a time