Re: 2013 MacBook Air Project

From: Lundberg, Johannes <johannes_at_brilliantservice.co.jp>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 09:09:18 +0200
I forgot about the patch to sys/dev/ahci/ahci.c but it is already committed
to head so just update that file to get access to the SSD controller.

One line has been added:
 {0x91831b4b, 0x00, "Marvell 88SS9183", AHCI_Q_NOBSYRES},

Johannes Lundberg
BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD. <http://www.brilliantservice.co.jp>


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:42 AM, Lundberg, Johannes <
johannes_at_brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:

> Thanks :)
>
> No github but I will attach the patches in this mail. Remember, the
> diskgeom patch is a ugly hack....
>
> Johannes Lundberg
> BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD. <http://www.brilliantservice.co.jp>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Alfred Perlstein <bright_at_mu.org> wrote:
>
>> This is so cool!
>>
>> Do you have a repo on github with these patches?
>>
>>
>> On 8/30/13 9:25 AM, Lundberg, Johannes wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I thought I'd give a progress report on running FreeBSD 10 on a MacBook
>>> Air
>>> 11" 2013 model.
>>>
>>> PCI-E SSD DRIVE
>>> - Added device ID to device list. Should be committed to head already.
>>> - Failed to write partition table due to weird characters at the end in
>>> the
>>> SSD's identifier key. Solved by ugly hack (cutting off the ident string
>>> in
>>> the middle), fix not committed.
>>>
>>> SMP
>>> - No problem when booting from usb memory stick. However, have to disable
>>> smp in /boot/loader.conf with kern.smp.disabled="1" to boot from the SSD.
>>>
>>> USB
>>> - Reverted sys/dev/usb/controller/xhci* to 243780 to make it work.
>>>
>>> WIFI
>>> - Seems like this one is gonna be difficult due to Broadcom's proprietary
>>> driver....
>>>
>>> ETHERNET
>>> - Thunderbolt adapter works fine but hot-plugging not supported so you
>>> need
>>> to connect it before booting.
>>>
>>> BLUETOOTH
>>> - Added device to usbdevs and ng_ubt.c. Device is recognised and ubt0
>>> created but when running "service bluetooth start ubt0" I get "Unable to
>>> setup Bluetooth stack for device ubt0". Works fine with other generic
>>> bluetooth 4.0 usb dongle. No debugging done.
>>>
>>> Will install Xorg next week so report about that coming later.
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>> Johannes Lundberg
>>> BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD. <http://www.brilliantservice.**co.jp<http://www.brilliantservice.co.jp>
>>> >
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>>
>> --
>> Alfred Perlstein
>>
>>
>
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