From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 16:22:55 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE7116A4A9 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:22:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xistence@0x58.com) Received: from mailexchange.osnn.net (1e.66.5646.static.theplanet.com [70.86.102.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9089F13C4BE for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:22:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xistence@0x58.com) Received: (qmail 67979 invoked by uid 0); 30 Oct 2007 15:52:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.22?) (xistence@0x58.com@68.228.228.224) by mailexchange.osnn.net with SMTP; 30 Oct 2007 15:52:28 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) To: hackers@freebsd.org Message-Id: <0A1CE06A-D2EC-4975-AE4B-EDDCBABE7F50@0x58.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-3-704209065; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" From: Bert JW Regeer Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:56:13 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: MacBook Pro 2.4 Ghz Santa Rosa X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:22:55 -0000 --Apple-Mail-3-704209065 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hey, As I had recently purchased a new MacBook Pro, I have one of the brand new shiny ones with the Santa Rosa chipset. I have been trying to run FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1.5 and 8.0-SURPRISE on it, and everything goes well except the following issues: 1. Sometimes it will hang for ever on the ACPI initialisation. Sometimes it will come out of it and continue booting, and other times it will require a hard power down. Really hit and miss. I first downloaded 7.0-BETA1.0, or 8.0-SURPRISE, and recompiled a new kernel on it with the latest source from -HEAD and that caused it to die with a failure to start the second core in my machine. FreeBSD 6.2 will sometimes boot and sometimes not boot, same as 7.0 hanging on ACPI. For FreeBSD 6.2 I am able to fix it by hitting the power button a few times. 2. The Marvell Gigbit NIC is not yet supported. I can provide output from pciconf -lv if need be, let me know. Have not yet tried the if_myk driver from Marvell themselves. 3. The Atheros chipset 5424 card is not yet supported either. Output Mac OS X has in it's dmesg for this wireless card: ath_attach: devid 0x24 Override HT40 CTL Powers. EEPROM Version is 14.4, Device Type 5 ath_descdma_setup: tx dd_desc_paddr = 0x76475000, length 0x46500 (288000) bytes ath_descdma_setup: beacon dd_desc_paddr = 0x65b6e000, length 0x90 (144) bytes mac 12.10 phy 8.1 radio 12.0 AirPort_Athr5424ab: Ethernet address 00:1c:b3:c0:82:cb I am looking forward to the day that I may run FreeBSD with xfce on this laptop, side by side with Mac OS X. Bert JW Regeer --Apple-Mail-3-704209065--