Is Asahi Linux planned for the iPad (M4)?

[lijh8]

Devices like the iPad, where the keyboard is separate from the machine,
make it easy to replace the keyboard when the keyboard malfunctions.
Keyboards are the peripheral often get broken most easily.

The iPad currently runs on the faster M4 CPU compared to Mac computers,
but Apple has not yet ported macOS to the iPad,
likely due to considerations for their lower-end MacBook Air.

If Asahi Linux could run on the iPad,
it would have a significant impact on Apple and its product line.

[DavidBuchanan314]

A bootrom (or early boot-chain) exploit would be needed to boot anything other than iPadOS on an iPad.

[AlexTech01]

iPads are significantly more locked down than Macs so there's no way to run a custom bootloader without having a pretty significant exploit. M1 and M2 iPads on iPadOS 16.3.1 or earlier can virtualize Windows/Linux through UTM and TrollStore, and iPads past that can emulate Windows/Linux (pretty slowly) through JIT-ful UTM and UTM SE, but it's a long way until somebody figures out how to run Linux natively on an iPad.