Asahi Linux progress report

The Asahi Linux project, which is working to build a distribution forM1-based Apple systems, has published aprogress report for January and February. "Apple Silicon Macsboot in a completely different way from PCs. The way they work is more akinto embedded platforms (like Android phones, or, of course, iOS devices),but with quite a few bespoke mechanisms thrown in. However, Apple has takena few steps to make this boot process feel closer to that of an Intel Mac,so there has been a lot of confusion around how things actually work. Forexample, did you know that Apple Silicon Macs cannot boot from externalstorage at all, in the traditional sense? Or that the bootloader on AppleSilicon Macs cannot show a graphical user interface at all, and that theBoot Picker" is in fact a full-screen macOS app, not part of thebootloader?"