# This is a developer quickstart guide for a tethered boot. If you're looking # for an enduser guide see: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Debian # If you find errors or I should have elaborated more to get you going faster, # please let me know in IRC. My nick is Glanzmann or drop me an email at # thomas@glanzmann.de # Boot into macos # Extract the firmware and save it somewhere you have access to. # This firmware needs to be extracted later in /lib/firmware curl -sL tg.st/u/fwx.sh | sh # Make space. The last number is the size that MacOS instatllation should # consume. The minimum recommended is 100 GB to be able to apply updates later # on easily. diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 100GB # Run the installer, select MacOS 12.1 as stub OS version, in the boot picker # you're supposed to click Restart than return to the shell and wait until the # installer is finished and press Return to shutdown your system. curl -L https://mrcn.st/alxsh | sh # Wait for the system to shutdown and the LEDs turn off. Than wait another 10 # seconds. Now press and do _not_ let go of the power button for 15 seconds. # If you screw up the power button holding, turn the System off by pressing the # power button until it is off and start from the beginning of this paragraph. # In the boot picker, select 'Options' and select Utilities > Terminal. In this # terminal execute: /Volumes/Linux/step2.sh # Create an EFI parition because the final layout will have that diskutil list diskutil addPartition %EFI% LB 512MB # Create partition to hold a rootfs (minimum 1GB if you want to use the rootfs below) diskutil list diskutil addPartition %Linux% %noformat% # dd a Debian Testing rootfs on it (minimum size 1GB) # Find the scripts to create that rootfs here: https://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/m1-debian curl -L https://tg.st/u/m1.tgz | tar -xOz | dd of=/dev/ bs=8m # Build dependencies sudo apt install -y gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu libc6-dev-arm64-cross device-tree-compiler imagemagick build-essential bc kmod flex cpio libncurses5-dev libelf-dev:native bison libssl-dev # Crosscompile the kernel git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AsahiLinux/linux cd linux curl -s https://tg.st/u/9ce9060dea91951a330feeeda3ad636bc88c642c.patch | git am - curl -s https://tg.st/u/5nly | git am - curl -s https://tg.st/u/config-2022-01-28 > .config make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- olddefconfig make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- -j32 Image.gz dtbs cd .. # build m1n1 git clone --recursive https://github.com/AsahiLinux/m1n1.git cd m1n1 make # Export the control device for the proxyclient and friends export M1N1DEVICE=/dev/ttyACM0 # chainload m1n1 so that you have the latest features available ./proxyclient/tools/chainload.py build/m1n1.macho # Enable PCIe for wifi python3 ./proxyclient/experiments/pcie_enable_devices.py # Pick the dtb for your device: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Devices proxyclient/tools/linux.py --bootargs="net.ifnames=0 rw root=/dev/nvme0n1p5 rootwait rootfstype=ext4" ../linux/arch/arm64/boot/Image.gz ../linux/arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8103-j293.dtb