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Re:“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME vi... by madez on Friday November 10, 2017 @06:12PM (#15673889)
It's still Intel hardware. But besides that, does the Macintosh work without blobs and mainline Linux? Can I install Debian on it and have stuff working? I'm just tired of uncooperative manufactures.
Re:“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME vi... by Dunedan on Saturday November 11, 2017 @08:54AM (#15676362)
> Can I install Debian on it and have stuff working?

Depends on the kind of Mac you buy. I can only comment on their mobile offerings:

- Best supported are the current MacBook Airs. Everything except the Webcam should work out-of-the-box. The webcam needs the out-of-tree bcwc_pcie driver (https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie)).

- The Retina MacBooks need some manual work before being usable (e.g. need to compile out-of-tree keyboard & touchpad driver (https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver)), but should work fine as well.

- The MacBook Pros before October 2016 are also quite good supported, the support for newer ones is still quite incomplete (check out https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux for details), although it's possible to use them as daily driver if you're aware of the limitations.

Re:“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME vi... by LeoPanthera on Friday November 10, 2017 @06:30PM (#15673989)
I've never tried but Debian has a lengthy (if out of date?) wiki page about running it on Macbooks:

https://wiki.debian.org/MacBook

https://wiki.debian.org/MacBookPro

Re:“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME vi... by dm319 on Saturday November 11, 2017 @05:36AM (#15675777)
The latest macbook pros essentially don't work well with linux. I think wifi isn't a solved issue still, for example.
Re:“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME vi... by cmurf on Saturday November 11, 2017 @10:33AM (#15676720)
None of them work well with Linux, despite the Linux folks sometimes bending over backwards to make it work. https://lwn.net/Articles/707616/

All of the Macs I have require binary firmware blobs for WiFi, for the open source driver to work. And even in that case none of them can do even 802.11n. I have to use the proprietary WiFi driver to get 802.11n or 802.11ac. And yes each model varies in this regard, which makes it something of a Choose Your Own Adventure book.

Re:“We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME vi... by Dunedan on Saturday November 11, 2017 @09:39AM (#15676526)
Depends on the model. On the non-TouchBar models WiFi works fine, on the TouchBar models it doesn't. For more details check: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux