Install 10.0-RC3 on MacBookPro Late 2013

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 6 03:13:35 UTC 2014


Hi!

Would you mind a recent 11-amd64 snapshot? Hans has committed a few
fixes to the driver recently.

Thanks!


-a


On 5 January 2014 19:01, Huang Wen Hui <huanghwh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install FreeBSD on MacBookPro Late 2013, I got 3 main
> problems:
>
> 1. USB problem
>
> This MacBookPro model only have xhci controller, 10.0-RC3 and 9.2R not
> working, keyboard and touchpad not respond. Error messages are
> "xhci_do_command: Command timeout!" and "USB_ERR_TIMEOUT".
> I also try to set "hw.usb.xhci.msi=0", no lucky.
>
> But 9.1R is OK, I copy xhci*.* file from 9.1R to 10.0, with very small
> change, and
> xhci works under 10.0-RC3!
>
> dmesg in 10.0-RC3: http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/dmesg-10.0.txt
> vmstat -i in 10.0-RC3: http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/vmstat-10.0.txt
> pciconf in 10.0-RC3: http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/pciconf.txt
>
> dmesg in 10.0 + xhci of 9.1R:
> http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/dmesg-10.0+9.1.txt
> vmstat -i in  + xhci of 9.1R:
> http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/vmstat-10.0+9.1.txt
>
> 2. AHCI timeout problem
>
> After booting, system quickly hit ahci timeout problem, I have to set
> "camcontrol tags ada0 -N 1".
> this can decrease timeout problem, but still happen when running heavy IO.
>
> "hint.ahci.0.msi=0" seem to fix this problem, but ahci and xhci use same
> IRQ 16, this make 10.0+9.1xhci
> unstable:( Internal keyboard and touchpad not working,  external keyboard
> and mouse working.
>
> vmstat -i in 10.0+9.1xhci with "hint.ahci.0.msi=0":
> http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/vmstat-10.0+9.1+msi.txt
> camcontrol identify: http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/cam-identify.txt
> smartctl: http://sw.gddsn.org.cn/freebsd/smartctl.txt
>
> 3. Random hang
>
> Sometimes the system(10.0+9.1xhci) hang without any message, keyboard,
> mouse and ping ping not respond.
> console no message, ctrl+alt+esc also could not break into ddb, I may try
> firewire/dcons, help it can get some
> useful information.
>
> I really like to have a working freebsd on MacBookPro, anything I can
> provide or any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Huang Wen Hui
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