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I read somewhere about a home router that corrupted packets in transit. In this case it was a torrent that never completed because of this. IIRC something in the nat engine bugged out and replaced bytes in the data and not just in the ip header.

More or less everything is broken. Its just that most protocols are designed to handle it.

Well I think this falls right into the anti-competitive argument. With the option of booting unsigned code the platform is available for anyone. Microsoft did sign boot loaders so linux can boot, there would have been some kind of fallout if they had not. So the booting of unsigned Mach-O sunds like a minimal action to not let it become a public issue for Apple.

The addition of raw mode sounds like a stable abi for booting linux. The Asahi developers have found "stuff" with the hardware. Just that feedback will be of great value to the continued development of the Apple SoCs. So my guess is that the raw mode is a gift with the expectation to be able to see how the Linux folks solves other issues.

I never got a clip-on adapter working on later generation Broadcom devices. On previous ones I shorted the cs-pin to make the nand chip disappear from the SoC. Then you could flash the chip.