interesting, very detailed bringup report.
The Asahi Linux project officially kicked off at the beginning of the year, but at that time we were all waiting for 1 crucial piece: support from Apple for booting alternate kernels on Apple Silicon systems. While the feature had been documented and mostly implemented, there was 1 final missing piece of the puzzle: support for the kmutil configure-boot command, which is what lets you install a non-Apple kernel. This didn’t stop us from making progress, however, as the first step to porting an OS to an undocumented platform is documenting it!