[Pkg-mactel-devel] Debian Mactel

[Thibaut Paumard]

Le 25/06/2014 18:00, Paul Tagliamonte a écrit :
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 05:55:36PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>> (CC: pkg-mactel-devel)
> 
> Hi folks!
> 
>> Welcome in the team. It's not very active... at all, but I'd be glad if
>> we manage to produce something.
> 
> Cool. I'm filled with blind rage about the situation right now (not
> anyone's fault, it's just not hardware DDs have) with my MacBook Air
> 13".
> 
> I'm going to talk with a few people about tweaking live-boot to work
> better, fix the EFI situation OTB and see if I can get better kernel
> support for things like nvram, so I can turn off that god aweful apple
> bootup noise.
> 
> Also some fixes to make it so I don't have to hold alt (by default) and
> add a cute Debian swirl to the menu.
> 
> I also want to package a few 'fix' debs and modules that i've been
> finding all over the place.
> 

Excellent!

>> FYI, I've been working on getting the hybrid graphics card working but I
>> have not managed to get my local hacks into decent packages.
> 
> Awesome! Have some hrefs so I can make sure I don't clash? :)

Well, it's basically documented here:

https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/MacBookPro/9-1

Now I have a tool to read and write the relevant ports, and a few
scripts to do it at the right moment. The point is that ideally the
kernel should do it rather than userland tools.

My main concern being that, with my hardware, EFI booting ends up with a
headless computer. You have to ssh in fix it, that's not good for
beginners (or for however only has one computer at home!)

Also I can't use the external monitor and I suspect this also has
something to do with setting some port to the right value. When I get
the time, I should boot under OSX and dump the PCI header for the device
so I can see what changes when the external monitor is active.

The difficulty of packaging this comes from the fact that I know nothing
of PCI programming, and that I can't be sure whether whatever works for
my hardware won't trash my neighbour's.


Cheers, Thibaut.

> 
>> Kind regards, Thibaut.
> 
> Thanks, Thibaut!
> 
> Cheers,
>   Paul
> 
> 
> 
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