Project

ish-arm64

ARM64 bring-up fork of iSH — Linux shell for iOS with AArch64 emulation

Overview

Personal fork of iSH focused on making an ARM64 Linux guest practical enough to run modern language runtimes and build tools on iOS ARM64 hosts. Brings up AArch64 CPU emulation, signal handling, and enough syscall coverage to bootstrap Alpine Linux packages natively.

Features
- AArch64 CPU emulation on iOS (JIT-capable where allowed)

- Signal handling and threading for ARM64 guests - Syscall coverage for Alpine Linux package bootstrap - Modern language runtime support (Python, Node, etc.)

Architecture
iOS app App Store / sideload iSH runtime syscall translation ARM64 emu AArch64 JIT Signals POSIX compat Alpine Linux apk package manager Language runtimes Python · Node · etc. apk ARM64 Linux shell on iOS — AArch64 emulation for Alpine bootstrap