Am Dienstag, 7. April 2020, 02:51:03 CEST schrieb James Linder: > I’ve got a new MBP which does not play at all nicely with linux (no > trackpad, keyboard, network I did not even try bluetooth. hmm, i use Linux natively on MBPs since long time and it is a bit usual that on very new MBP models few things does not work "out of the box", but at least with some manual modifications within kernel or driver builds / config. So it taked me usually few days to get anything up what i need and/or want with such "Fresh" MBPs. Sometimes hardware "IDs" have to be added to kernel source by hand and some patches are around too for different purposes, efi workarounds for switching graphic adapters etc.. For audio, i had to test around with different module parameters of the driver.
Because i personally prefer (beside *BSDs) source build distributions like Gentoo ("bit BSDish") on my workstations it is bit easier to adapt such things. But it might overwhelm lesss killed users who expect a simple installer process or "auto recognition" who did that all (for people familiar with NetBSD less the case i assume ß).. Due to the high amount of natively (bare metal) Linux users on MPB things usually get "working" after a while in the main distributions. But for exotic features like the touchbar i have no overview if there is any solution (but thats no real limitation in my view).. From what i know, the newer keyboards as trackpads are supported in newer 5er kernels. If you use binary distributions with binary packages only this might not work well for such very new models, but few monthes later things usually change even there. I have a MacBookPro11,5 here which works completely since 2016 (incl. thunderbolt, almost all audio stuff, cam, bluetooth, trackpad which was to fiddle with initially after MPB release). Except Thunderbolt networking seems not working hot plug. For netbSD (natievly) older MBPs are usually much more suitable or even the only change to get it running "wide enough". just my .02$ good luck, niels. -- --- Niels Dettenbach Syndicat IT & Internet http://www.syndicat.com PGP: https://syndicat.com/pub_key.asc ---