I suggest reading some of the Asahi Linux wiki to get a feel for the Apple Silicon architecture. There’s a lot of tight integration there with many custom co-processors, that’s going to make life difficult for the prospective hackintosh.
Yes, there absolutely is a lot of integrations and even if a consumer level SoC existed that could run arm64 macOS, it might not last long as all Apple would have to do is slightly change some aspect of their particular architecture and it would stop working. I don’t expect it to ever happen, but then again, I never expected macOS on x86 either.
Asahi, by the way, it’s astounding how far they’ve come with porting over to Apple Silicon. I haven’t had the itch strong enough yet to give it a go, but I will eventually.
I suggest reading some of the Asahi Linux wiki to get a feel for the Apple Silicon architecture. There’s a lot of tight integration there with many custom co-processors, that’s going to make life difficult for the prospective hackintosh.
Conversely it’s amazing how far Asahi has come. Hector Martin and team are freaking geniuses.
It really is! I can’t wait for the future where I take a couple cheap and used M1 Mac minis and run Linux servers on them.
Amazing, but it’s harder to understand that project than Linux for Wii or PlayStation.
Yes, there absolutely is a lot of integrations and even if a consumer level SoC existed that could run arm64 macOS, it might not last long as all Apple would have to do is slightly change some aspect of their particular architecture and it would stop working. I don’t expect it to ever happen, but then again, I never expected macOS on x86 either.
Asahi, by the way, it’s astounding how far they’ve come with porting over to Apple Silicon. I haven’t had the itch strong enough yet to give it a go, but I will eventually.