Hector Martin

What’s the end goal? Linux under a hypervisor? Completely wiping the disk and booting Linux all the way up to a GUI on an MBP? Something else? Because it seems to me the former is probably fairly easy (someone has already done QEMU) and the latter nearly impossible.

The latter (or dual-boot, most likely, for most people). Yes, sometimes people say things are impossible and then I do them anyway :-)

Any plans to integrate your changes into some existing distro? I've had issues with running vanilla kernels both with Fedora AND Ubuntu. It'd be amazing if you came out of the gate with support for any (already stable) distro Obviously they will catch up once you go mainline :)

My target will likely be Arch Linux initially. Since this will all be very bleeding edge, it's unlikely to be usable out of the box on stable distros for quite a while (a year or two at least if things go fast), but I hope someone cooks up PPAs or something :)