Hi Intrigeri, Thanks for your feedback. I understand the situation and your proposed steps are absolutely legitimate from a Tails angle. What would be the best approach for provide you a patch? I’ve seen https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/code <https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/code>
But since I only own my MacBook 12“ I’m not quite sure if it is fast enough to build the whole project and how I would ensure everything is working correctly afterwards? Cheers, Marco > Am 29.05.2018 um 20:08 schrieb intrigeri <[email protected]>: > > Hi Marco, > > Marco Betschart: >> I wanted to boot Tails on my MacBook 12“ from 2015, but the keyboard as well >> as the trackpad do not work at all. >> Seems like this is a known issue and there is a driver available which >> should help out: >> https://mknowles.com.au/wordpress/2017/11/02/installing-fedora-27-on-a-2017-macbook-12-retina-macbook-101/ >> <https://mknowles.com.au/wordpress/2017/11/02/installing-fedora-27-on-a-2017-macbook-12-retina-macbook-101/> > >> Are there any plans for adding this to the official Tails? > > This driver is marked "WIP" (work in progress) and as far as I know > it's not been submitted for inclusion into the Linux kernel yet. > The list of known issues on > https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver is not exactly confidence > inspiring. So it's not available in Debian and thus not in Tails yet. > Once the authors of this driver deem it ready for prime time, it'll > propagate to Debian and then to Tails. > > In the meantime, the amount of work required to go out of our way and > include this third-party driver does not fit into our > current resources. But assuming it's Free Software and builds > reproducibly, I think we would happily consider a good patch that > implements this :) > > Cheers, > -- > intrigeri
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