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Add descriptions to installer options #69

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installer_data: add a desc property for each option
chadmed Mar 28, 2022
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installer_data: add note on kernel versions for other distros
chadmed Mar 28, 2022
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"os_list": [
{
"name": "Asahi Linux Desktop",
"desc": "Our user-friendly Arch Linux ARM remix, representing the state of the art of Apple Silicon support on GNU/Linux. Comes bundled with the Plasma desktop, Firefox, and other handy applications to get you up and running.",
"default_os_name": "Asahi Linux",
"boot_object": "m1n1.bin",
"next_object": "m1n1/boot.bin",
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},
{
"name": "Asahi Linux Minimal (Arch Linux ARM)",
"desc": "A lighter weight option for power users. This is a stock Arch Linux ARM root image, bundled only with a barebones set of utilities required to make the hardware useful. No DE or other \"extra\" stuff is installed by default.",
"default_os_name": "Asahi Linux",
"boot_object": "m1n1.bin",
"next_object": "m1n1/boot.bin",
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},
{
"name": "UEFI environment only (m1n1 + U-Boot + ESP)",
"desc": "This option provides you with only a UEFI environment via U-Boot, and you are required to bring your own distro. This is useful if you wish to use an external drive as your root partition, or wish to install a distro from external media as you would on a traditional PC. Note that Apple Silicon machines will not boot properly with kernels older than 5.17. Your distro must also support UEFI booting on AArch64, which is often referred to as Arm EBBR or Arm SystemReady.",
"default_os_name": "UEFI boot",
"boot_object": "m1n1.bin",
"next_object": "m1n1/boot.bin",
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},
{
"name": "Tethered boot (m1n1, for development)",
"desc": "This will install nothing but m1n1. m1n1 will initialise the hardware and then wait for further instructions, which must be delivered to it via USB from a host machine. This is only useful for developers and reverse engineers working on low-level hardware support. Please see the wiki for more information on using m1n1 in this mode. If you are at all unsure, do not pick this option.",
"default_os_name": "m1n1 proxy",
"expert": true,
"boot_object": "m1n1.bin",
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