Visual Studio on an Arm Windows machine
Visual Studio today (the IDE) is still a 32-bit x86 application. How well does it run on a Windows on Arm machine? Disclaimer: This workflow… Read More »Visual Studio on an Arm Windows machine
Not-an-iPad-review
I ordered an iPad Air (again) on Sunday and picked it up on Monday. So far, it’s quite good, with the Apple Pencil being the… Read More »Not-an-iPad-review
Open source rhetoric? or FUD?
I’ve been reading this blog post. (titled “Heads up: Microsoft repo secretly installed on all Raspberry Pi’s Linux OS”) The headline by itself already sets… Read More »Open source rhetoric? or FUD?
Things to not do on Apple OSes: disabling AMFI
On a side note, a jailbroken iOS device has security protections equivalent to a macOS system with SIP off and AMFI off. That’s not a… Read More »Things to not do on Apple OSes: disabling AMFI
Arm CPUs with sequential consistency
(NVIDIA Xavier Series SoC Technical Reference Manual 1.4p, page 576) One of the few general purpose processors in the wild with sequential consistency is the… Read More »Arm CPUs with sequential consistency
Notes on the new XNU source release
Yet another one… and this time in buildable form on Apple M1 devices. (tarball at https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/xnu/xnu-7195.81.3.tar.gz) What are the Apple CPU extensions not supported though… Read More »Notes on the new XNU source release
New XNU source release
A new XNU release appeared at: https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/xnu/xnu-7195.60.75.tar.gz. What’s not there: Tunables for Apple Firestorm/Icestorm. Hypervisor support for Apple Silicon-based Macs doesn’t seem to be there… Read More »New XNU source release
Linux on Apple Silicon Macs: first RFC submission
The first RFC got submitted to upstream to solicit comments about it. It’s quite minimal, only including the interrupt controller and secondary CPU startup drivers,… Read More »Linux on Apple Silicon Macs: first RFC submission
A look at Windows 10X on Arm
From a quick look at Windows 10X build 20279 (fe_release_10x) on 64-bit Arm: No x86(_64) backwards compatibility for UWP apps Which brings us to the… Read More »A look at Windows 10X on Arm
Thoughts on Linux for Apple Silicon Macs: part 2
After iBoot, code execution is controlled by us. What should be used as a second stage after that though? One of the constraints is that… Read More »Thoughts on Linux for Apple Silicon Macs: part 2