I recently loaded Asahi Linux on a M1 Mac Mini and am testing it, seeing if I can make it sweat.
I download the Linux 6.8.7 source and built the kernel. I won’t go into the details because, truthfully, it was uneventful and a non-event. Total time
scsosna@triompe:~/data/linux/linux-6.8.7$ time make-j $(nproc)
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LD [M] net/openvswitch/vport-gre.ko
LD [M] net/vmw_vsock/vsock.ko
LD [M] net/vmw_vsock/vsock_diag.ko
LD [M] net/vmw_vsock/vmw_vsock_vmci_transport.ko
LD [M] net/vmw_vsock/vmw_vsock_virtio_transport.ko
LD [M] net/vmw_vsock/vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common.ko
LD [M] net/vmw_vsock/hv_sock.ko
LD [M] net/vmw_vsock/vsock_loopback.ko
LD [M] net/nsh/nsh.ko
LD [M] net/hsr/hsr.ko
LD [M] net/qrtr/qrtr.ko
LD [M] net/qrtr/qrtr-smd.ko
LD [M] net/qrtr/qrtr-mhi.ko
real 23m47.969s
user 165m27.138s
sys 10m51.437s