Attribution
Aurora Silicon builds on years of Apple Silicon research, firmware development, and graphics work by other projects and contributors.
Asahi Linux
Section titled “Asahi Linux”Asahi Linux made much of the Apple Silicon platform accessible through reverse engineering, hardware documentation, and Linux support. Aurora’s bootloader, kernel, U-Boot, and installer trees began as forks of that work.
Aurora’s graphics drivers build on Mesa, the open source graphics stack.
Omarchy
Section titled “Omarchy”Omarchy is Aurora’s flagship distribution for Apple Silicon. The Omarchy and Aurora teams worked together on the Mac experience.
MacBook Neo foundations
Section titled “MacBook Neo foundations”Neo bring-up builds on work from these contributors and source lineages:
- Yureka: initial T8140 support, DebugUSB, proxy, Linux chainloading, and platform bring-up in m1n1.
- Robert Rusch: Neo framebuffer, proxy boot, and personalised kernelcache work in asahi_neo and m1n1.
- Miyako Yakota: Neo Linux payload and SMP work in m1n1.
- Dhinak G: AEA and WKMS reference work for modern IPSW disk images in aeota.
- rafalh: the rust-fatfs filesystem crate carried in the m1n1 source lineage.
- Cody Ho: SPTM and hypervisor research, including Apple Silicon reverse-engineering notes and m1n1 work.
Website icons
Section titled “Website icons”Feature and device glyphs use Lucide. The ISC and MIT licence notices accompany the icons.
This list is not exhaustive. Repository licence headers, credits, and commit history remain the authoritative record for code provenance. If a credit is missing, please let us know.