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Date:      Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:44:14 +0200
From:      "Lundberg, Johannes" <johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: 2013 MacBook Air Project
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Hi Adrian

That's great! Good luck to you :)

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


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 7:07 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> 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
>>
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