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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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[–] 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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