A lot of people are unclear on how Apple Silicon machines boot and what it means for people coming from a UEFI perspective, so I wrote up a comparison https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/M1-vs.-PC-Boot … (note: current best understanding, there may be inaccuracies). TLDR iBoot + Recovery ~= UEFI firmware.
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Replying to @marcan42
If iBoot is on partition 1, and "all 3 partitions are APFS", does that mean the initial firmware also understands APFS in order to load iBoot itself, like EFI would? (Or is that initial firmware *also* called "iBoot"? This confuses me a bit.)
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Replying to @gray69798502
I just updated the page. There are two stages to iBoot; the first one lives in NOR flash. The Boot ROM does not understand APFS; the iBoot in NOR flash does. (I suspected, but wasn't sure about this bit, but I have just gotten confirmation)
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