An independent experiment.
BootCampARM is finding out whether Windows 11 ARM64 can be installed and started on Apple Silicon without macOS as the host. The work is unfinished.
A boot path is a sequence of evidence.
Classic Boot Camp partitioned an Intel Mac and installed Windows beside macOS. Apple Silicon removed that path. Virtual machines filled the practical gap. This project is aimed at the other shape: firmware, a boot picker entry, and Windows as a system the machine starts, not a window inside macOS.
The current development target is a 14-inch MacBook Pro with M3, from 2023. Broader Apple Silicon support is a goal that will be earned one verified machine at a time. The project does not claim to be first, and it does not claim a result it has not produced.
BootCampKit is the framework that should eventually make the process repeatable: inspect the Mac, prepare the boot environment, stage installation media, manage firmware payloads, record diagnostics, and track which hardware has actually been tested. Today it is engineering source plus a narrow set of boot experiments.
Attribution
m1n1 comes from the Asahi Linux project. U-Boot provides the UEFI environment used in the current tests. Community firmware research, including work published by NT-for-ASi, is discussed in the project's engineering notes and linked from the architecture document as related work. Those projects remain theirs.
The Mac app in the engineering tree still contains earlier promotional wording. Where it disagrees with this website, this website is the record of what has been demonstrated.
Read the project overview, the progress record, and the documentation.