On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:22:04AM -0500, Bryan C. Everly wrote: > I tried a few months ago to boot this into OpenBSD and one of the big > problems I ran into was that this is a USB 3 only machine and as such, the > keyboard worked at the boot prompt but did not work when I got to the first > installer prompt.
I never had any success with any Apple machine of recent vintage until efiboot became available very recently. Now with the changes to inteldrm(4) over the weekend, most things are working well for me. > I'm seeing people talking about working on Macbook Air machines (some of > quite recent vintage) so I'm wondering if: > > 1. There is a patch I can apply to get keyboard support working on the > Macbook Pro Retina; or I was corresponding with Joerg Jung about his 2015 12-inch Retina MacBook and he also has the same issue. I also booted up my 2015 12-inch Retina MacBook yesterday and had no keyboard at all. His solution was a USB keyboard and a USB hub. I didn't have either handy but may try that later today. In the case of the 12-inch Retina MacBook, there is only that single USB-C port so I'm not sure if the USB hub was needed for any reason other than to provide at least two ports (one for USB flash drive and one for USB keyboard). > 2. The Macbook Air doesn't have all USB 3 ports so this isn't a problem > for that hardware The last several generations only show xhci(4) rather than any uhci(4). I don't know what is different about the MacBook Air systems that allows the keyboard to work since the keyboard does attach as ukbd(4). > Any suggestions would be appreciated. My solution was to create an OpenBSD efiboot flash drive and then things worked fairly well. In your case, you probably need a USB keyboard and possibly a USB hub. I will post a separate post soon with more information about both of my MacBook Air systems but, in short, the 2013 MacBook Air, which is a Haswell system like your MacBook Pro, works quite well. Obviously wireless is not supported but a urtwn(4) USB wireless adapter works fine. X acceleration works fine as does xbacklight(1) to set screen brightness. The brightness buttons on the keyboard do not work though. Keyboard backlight is functional (although not yet adjustable) due to Joerg Jung's recent asmc(4) driver. The 2015 MacBook Air which is a Broadwell system works almost as well but does not have X acceleration at this time (disabled for now due to instability) and also does not respond to xbacklight(1) so there is no way to adjust screen brightness. To see the state of things in Linux, I also installed Fedora 23 last week which comes with Linux kernel 4.2 and that also could not adjust the brightness of the display at all even though it acted as though it was working. I am interested to see what you find with your system since I am looking to pick up a similar Haswell Retina MacBook Pro from the refurbished store to use with OpenBSD as well. Bryan
