2013 MacBook Air Project

[Lundberg, Johannes]

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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