The NVMe Patches To Support Linux On Newer Apple Macs Are Under Review

[starshipeleven]

Windows is supported by Apple with boot camp, so it's their own effort to get it running on their crappy hardware.

It's not hard to make a driver to workaround a hardware hack, if you made the hardware hack yourself.
Did you look at the patch? It's not complex code in itself. The hard part is the reverse-engineering, and Apple does not have to do that.

Also, I don't think linux on macs is that irrelevant

You are wrong.

[starshipeleven]

Why are we trying to crack the atom bypassing their T2 chip

There is no T2 cracking, this is just a patch to workaround some weird shit they are doing with their PCIe SSD.

T2 has never enforced people to boot only MacOS/Windows, you can just go in their firmware setup page and disable the "secure boot" thing and it will boot Linux fine.

This has been a hardware issue all along.

[tildearrow]

Which is a non-issue when your hardware is all soldered down. I mean this is their own soldered down SSD that isn't talking to their own motherboard.

MacOS and Windows (that gets a driver from them) are both fine.

Linux support is less than irrelevant for their own bottom line.

I agree. While Apple gives us a toy to play with (Swift), the Windows guys get everything (Magic Mouse 2 driver, iTunes, full device support, etc.)

Mozilla has a similar situation. They give us Rust, and they give Windows full hardware decoding acceleration by default.