Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 2015 10:22:41 -0700 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: MacBook8,1 (2015) HID Hardware Support |
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On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 03:10:16AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > Hello, > > I've been trying to get Linux installed on a MacBook8,1 (not the pro) > and have had trouble getting keyboard input to work, despite > a4a2c54560f2c57b88ba0283f141b44f594c2337 ("HID: apple: Add support for > the 2015 Macbook Pro") and d58069265c9d15c04c9e3832cd1d9dffe9d4d5f6 > ("Input: bcm5974 - add support for the 2015 Macbook Pro"). Even > compiling it into the kernel itself or forcing hid-apple module > loading in both initramfs and init did not help. One would assume (I > did) it's because the hardware is different to the MacBookPro12,1. > However, looking at the product and vendor ID: > > Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad: > > Product ID: 0x0272 > Vendor ID: 0x05ac (Apple Inc.) > Version: 6.22 > Manufacturer: Apple Inc. > Location ID: 0x01000000 > > It seems that this hardware was added to hid-apple as > USB_DEVICE_ID_APPLE_WELLSPRING9_ANSI in both of the above linked > commits, so what gives? Is there some peculiarity with this hardware? > Am I not reading the above patches correctly? I'd be happy to test any > patches you'd like to throw at me.
IIRC these models use SPI instead of USB for the keyboard/trackpad, so the commits you are referencing will not work for you.
I do not know if anyone is looking into getting SPI variants to work.
Thanks.
-- Dmitry
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