Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 10:07:03 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 2013 MacBook Air Project Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmo=erhp_uppixsUwF-EQVLah=EyyZ6SjLaDmr8NFqm_6AQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAASDrVkA-F-gmZW0CGxkRkSaBEDix4ni_jkJVGt41qtzTRx6uw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAASDrVkA-F-gmZW0CGxkRkSaBEDix4ni_jkJVGt41qtzTRx6uw@mail.gmail.com>
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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@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>; > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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