Mac Studio · M5 family

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Mac Studio · M5 family

🧭 Hardware directory › M5 category

Important

Public source was audited; hardware qualification remains board-specific. No matching board build target or named-board hardware result was found in the reviewed public Aurora work. The J813 results in M5 MacBook Air do not qualify this product.

Refreshed October 16, 2026. Public PR states, follow-up reports, merge destinations and source were checked. This is an evidence update, not a new physical test. Baseline: linux/aurora-wip@f53454ba0da1; bootloader: m1n1/aurora-wip@f3ac615eb137.

Latest assessment · October 16, 2026

No named-board hardware result was found. New chip-level T6050 (M5 Pro/Max) development is open in DjDeveloperr's APIF series: a guest path under the Aura monitor covering storage, PCIe, power, display, wireless and Type-C. It is build- and host-tested only; no board in this discussion is qualified by it.

Configurations

Board	Silicon / SoC	Configuration	Year	Audit result
J775C	M5 Max · T6050	Mac Studio	2026	⚪ No matching working-tree DTS or named-board runtime result found
J775D	M5 Ultra · T6050	Mac Studio	2026	⚪ No matching working-tree DTS or named-board runtime result found

Evidence key: 🟢 named hardware report · 🔵 code present in the pinned source · 🟠 partial or unqualified · ⚪ no board-specific evidence found. A merge is an integration event, not a hardware test or release qualification.

Hardware assessment

Area	Current evidence
Boot / CPU / memory / interrupts	⚪ No matching board target or named-board runtime report found.
NVMe / USB / PCIe / CPU scaling	⚪ No board-specific public qualification found.
GPU / display / media / audio / camera	⚪ No board-specific public qualification found.
Wireless / input / SEP / Touch ID	⚪ No board-specific public qualification found.
Thermals / suspend / installer	⚪ No complete-system public qualification found.
T6050 chip-level development	🟠 Open, unqualified · DjDeveloperr's stacked APIF series (linux #238, linux #241–linux #257) adds a T6050 path for a Linux guest under the Aura monitor and SPTM: MMIO transport, DART/SART providers, resident ANS NVMe, preinitialized PCIe/MSI, PMP, SPMI, PMU RTC, SMC, fixed DP PHY, a cpufreq profile, N1 Wi-Fi/Bluetooth, firmware-27 DCP, GPIO interrupts and Type-C. All 18 PRs are open; only #238 targets aurora-wip, the rest stack on apif-* branches. Validation is image builds, DT schema checks and host tests (16 TAP cases); every PR says hardware qualification is pending, no board is named, and GPU is out of scope.

Checked the current Apple board target list and public Aurora PRs, including newer M5/M6 work. This is a recorded evidence gap, not a claim that the hardware can never be supported.

🧪 Add a reproducible hardware report

Reply here with one feature or failure per report. Identify the exact row from the configurations table.

Board ID:
SoC ID and chip variant:
Model / screen size / configuration:
Feature or SoC block:
Kernel repository / branch / commit:
m1n1 / U-Boot / Mesa commits, where relevant:
Firmware version:
Steps to reproduce:
Expected result:
Observed result and repeat count:
Public log or artifact URL:
Artifact SHA-256 and command to repeat the check:
Known limits / recovery steps:

Repository admins can update this opening post through ⋯ → Edit. Record the tested board next to each result; leave other boards pending until their evidence is supplied.

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Keep this product generation together. Discuss shared silicon changes here and link affected sibling products through the hardware directory. A result on one board does not change another board’s status.

Audit baseline: f53454ba0da1; public source and PR reports checked October 16, 2026. No new physical test was performed for this update. Working-tree integration does not imply an aurora-stable release.

PR state and integration audit · October 16, 2026

PR	GitHub state	Destination / target branch	Integration evidence
linux #238	🟠 Open	aurora-wip	Open development PR; hardware reports retain their tested revisions · 007b579dcd3e
linux #241	🟠 Open	apif-mmio	Open development PR; hardware reports retain their tested revisions · 9ee6782ef9b2
linux #257	🟠 Open	apif-typec-events	Open development PR; hardware reports retain their tested revisions · dd6994712b32

PR state, source integration and hardware qualification are separate. A closed PR is not necessarily merged. Public reports describe their original test kernels, including contributor branches. Repository administrators can edit this opening post.