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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)
submitted 4 weeks ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 33 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm curious if they are able (or have any intentions) to access the gsm modem to send/receive phone calls.

Historically, on android, this was a vendor specific binary blob, which really limited what you could do with it "as a phone".

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  • [–] 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    Subscribe on Patreon to fund the next wave of bring-up: Face ID, cellular baseband, WiFi, and Bluetooth

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  • [–] 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I will never trust faceID. At least with a 6 digit pin the cops have to escalate to a super swamped tech dept

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    Most implementations have a way to kill off the Face ID authentication. On modern iPhones you can spam the power button 5 times and Face ID is disabled. If you want a “cold boot” situation which is much harder to get into, just press and hold volume down and power for 10 seconds to hard reboot it.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

    I'd be happy to drop the phone part of the phone switching to mobile Linux if I could still send and receive calls using an app and wifi only without a carrier

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  • [–] 10 points 4 weeks ago

    That'd be kinda useless as soon as you're out of wi-fi range which for me personally is pretty much any time I'm not home

    However, if they could get just the data part of LTE working, that would be good enough, I'd just tell people who actually know me to use an app to call me and everyone else doesn't need to reach me this badly anyway

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