This pages explains how to install Debian on Apple Silicon machines.
+# Debian Testing
+
+There is a new installer for Debian testing from noisycoil who is maintainer
+ of the Debian bananas team. In order to use it run and follow the instructions:
+
+ curl -sL https://bananas-archive.debian.net/install | sh
+
+Original announcement: [Debian on Apple M1/M2: status and call for testers](https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2025/06/msg00241.html)
+
# Tripwires
The USB-A Port on the Mac Mini will not work in u-boot and grub. The two
additional USB-3 ports on the iMac 4 port model don't work in u-boot, grub
curl -sL https://tg.st/d | sh
+* **Or** run the Debian testing installer:
+
+ curl -sL https://bananas-archive.debian.net/install | sh
+
* Follow the installer instructions.
* Once Debian is booted log in as root without password and set a root password
* You need to run the asahi installer and have either an OS installed or m1n1+UEFI.
-* If you have a EFI binary on the NVMe and want to boot from the usb stick, you need to interrupt u-boot on the countdown by pressing any key and run the following comamnd to boot from usb:
+* If you plug in the usb stick, u-boot automatically boot from the usb stick. If it doesn't you can interrupt u-boot with Ctrl-c and boot manually from USB:
- run bootcmd_usb0
+ setenv boot_targets "usb" ; setenv bootmeths "efi" ; boot
* Reboot with the USB stick connected, the Debian livesystem should automatically start, if it doesn't load the kernel and initrd manually, you can use tab. For x try 0,1,2,...
# FAQ
-* If I install Debian, will it be easy to update the Asahi work as it develops?
+## Why has there been no kernel update?
+
+For Debian stable I'm currently unable to update the kernel due to the fact
+that the kernel requires new mesa packages and the new mesa package needs too
+many dependencies which are not in Debian stable and I'm not willing to add
+that many new packages. So I recommend that if you want the latest asahi
+kernel, mesa, sound and other packages, switch to testing and use Thomas
+Renards packages for testing. <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Bananas>
+
+## How to enable spakers?
+
+Currently speakers are only supported on M1 air. Install the necessary packages:
+
+ apt update
+ apt upgrade -y
+ apt dist-upgrade -y
+ apt install -y alsa-ucm-conf-asahi speakersafetyd
+ reboot
+
+After the reboot I need to restart the speakersafetyd in order to hear sound out of the speakers:
+
+ sudo systemctl restart speakersafetyd
+
+## Does it work on M2?
+
+Yes, M3 is not yet supported.
+
+## Are you still maintaining this?
+
+Yes, I do and will continue doing this until there is an official Debian installer.
+
+## If I install Debian, will it be easy to update the Asahi work as it develops?
Yes, long answer below.
For installations before 2022-12-12, see <https://thomas.glanzmann.de/asahi/README.txt>
-Later it might be necessary to upgrade the stub parition in order to
+Later it might be necessary to upgrade the stub partion in order to
support the GPU code. As soon as that happens, I'll add the
instructions and a video in order to do so, but short version is:
So, you never need to reinstall Debian. Kernel updates are easy, stub
updates are a little bit more cumbersome but also seldom.
-* How do I compile zfs on apple silicon debian?
+## How do I compile zfs on apple silicon debian?
- In order to build zfs you need the rust environment. So from the m1-debian
repository you have to run these scripts:
./dependencies.sh
./prepare_rust.sh
-- Build a kernel that is not cross compiled. Because the cross compiled header
- package does contain the fixtool for the wrong architecture at the moment and
- install the resulting kernel deb and headers and boot into it:
-
- ./m1n1_uboot_kernel.sh
-
- Prepare your zfs build environment. You need to replace
/home/sithglan/work/m1-debian with your path to
your m1-debian checkout:
export RUSTUP_HOME="/home/sithglan/work/m1-debian/build/rust"
source "/home/sithglan/work/m1-debian/build/cargo/env"
-- You have to specify the default rust version:
-
- rustup default 1.68.2
-
- Tell zfs which version of clang you use to compile the kernel:
export KERNEL_LLVM=-15
make -s -j$(nproc)
- Follow the instructions on <https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Developer%20Resources/Building%20ZFS.html> how to install it.
+
+## What about gnome?
+
+You need an unpriviledged user to log in. You should delete /etc/network/interfaces in order to manage the network under gnome. If you don't have an US keyboard, you can change the settings in Gnome > Settings > Keyboard.
+
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