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Linux boots on the iPhone 11, and we believe we’re the first in the world to do it. (www.patreon.com)
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Every line in the boot path is code we wrote. There is zero Apple code between power-on and Linux. The bootloader is ours, top to bottom. To our knowledge, no one has done this on an A13 device before.

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[–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

What about older devices?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago*

    Linux has been booted on some older ones before as far as I know, this is the first time it's been done on the 11. There's even (very) partial Nura (PostMarketOS) support for iPhones from 5s to X.

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