Re: 2013 MacBook Air Project

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:07:03 -0700
I've begun trying to hunt down someone at Broadcom to talk about the 11ac
driver.

Wish me luck.

(And install/run FreeBSD on mac hardware..)



-adrian


On 30 August 2013 09:25, Lundberg, Johannes <johannes_at_brilliantservice.co.jp
> 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>
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