No SSD, and you’re stuck with just a simple boot ROM that will end up putting the system into DFU mode.īecause x86 support is still in early testing stages and not even available on Windows on ARM devices without enrolling in the Insider program, and it's still not quite fully baked. Without it, the OS is stuck with just the initial boot loader framebuffer on the one screen.Įven the “Boot Picker” is actually a full screen macOS app running inside a mini macOS environment that chain loads from the SSD. Even the Display Controller is bare minimum to changing video modes, hotplug support for displays, and putting displays to sleep. Thus far, at least the Linux effort has only been made possible by reverse engineering and examining register writes and such. Yes, as the Asahi Linux blog states, those two things are as different as the USB Controller and the GPU, yet they must be controlled in concert for the display output to be meaningful.
The problem with the Boot Camp method, is that someone, possibly Apple, possibly Microsoft themselves, will need to make native drivers for the hardware components, such as the Display Controller and the GPU.
I do not mind the virtualization requirement thus far.
