MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by movedx on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @12:28AM (#28914875)

I'm not convinced I'm going to be able to swap a USB-C port for a Display Port and FreeBSD is just going to be like, "OK! I can handle that!" It's more likely it's going to laugh in my face and simply not do anything at all. Worst case: it'll crash.

And even after shutting down and swapping the components out, I'm not convinced drivers won't be an issue.

Do you have more information on this?

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by moondev on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @03:11AM (#28915583)

There is nothing fancy or proprietary about this, it's a usb-c to displayport adaptor that is designed to fit flush into the body. You can use the same adaptor on a macbook if you wanted to, and certainly don't need to shutdown the machine to do so.

https://frame.work/products/displayport-expansion-card

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by movedx on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @09:21PM (#28925752)

https://jcs.org/2021/08/06/framework

> 2021-08-09: I added Tiger Lake LP support to pchgpio, enabling GPIO interrupt support for ihidev, which was needed to make the touchpad work properly in non-polling mode (and apparently not cause the EC to randomly freak out and power down the system).

> 2021-08-31: Closing the laptop’s lid does not currently cause an S3 suspend due to a bug in the DSDT of the Framework Laptop which references an invalid EC device in the ECDT. I’ve been told by Framework that this will be fixed in a future BIOS update.

> 2021-09-21: A fix has been committed for the touchpad not working after S3 resume.

Let's get the basics working first before we call Apple's products "shit".

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