Meanwhile, seeing what @marcan42 just did...
Having a Mach-O header present through a linker script for an _ELF_ linker is… let’s say quite unique.
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Much more than that, it’s that the kernel cache is a bundle with the kernel extensions included too.
Those kexts are prelinked into one text blob these days though, which at that point isn't unlike Linux's built-in kernel modules. Linux uses tons of internal sections to implement stuff like that, but none of it needs to be visible at the bootloader ABI level.
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Similarly Linux can include bare modules in a built-in initramfs, but again, the bootloader doesn't care about that (though it can supply one but that's not the only way to do it).
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The question isn't what the kernel cares about, it's what the *bootloader* cares about. The bootloader does not care about kexts.
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