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sk8harddiefast

July 15th, 2011, 15:38

Is any support for this CPU arch?
It should be very nice to have the possibility to install FreeBSD on this (http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/) or this (http://techblog.gr/tablet/asus-eee-pad-slider-6432/)

SirDice

July 15th, 2011, 16:05

It was possible on the older EEE netbooks. But I don't think that's relevant for these. ARM isn't fully supported yet and I also think getting the touchscreen to work might prove a little tricky.

http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/arm.html
http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm

But yeah, it would be cool to run FreeBSD on it :e

sk8harddiefast

July 15th, 2011, 21:46

So this is a reason to do not buy it yet! I am thinking Macbook pro too but is fully supported?

SirDice

July 16th, 2011, 07:29

MacBookPro uses a standard intel chip and thus is supported.

sk8harddiefast

July 21st, 2011, 18:20

sossego

July 21st, 2011, 19:29

Ask the FreeBSD ARM mailing lists.

SirDice needs to buy and install FreeBSD to other architectures instead of just giving advice.

andrew@

July 22nd, 2011, 02:40

There is currently no support for the Tegra 2. I'm currently investigating the difficulty of the port as Nvidia has not publicly released the required documentation.

SirDice

July 22nd, 2011, 10:25

b7j0c

July 24th, 2011, 07:26

I mean on all over the hardware. Sound, usb, wifi, ethernet etc. Mac don't use BIOS? It is possible to completely remove MAC OSX from hdd and install only FreeBSD? I really like Macbook pro but I want only BSD.

I have wrestled extensively with this problem. I have a MacBook Pro "5,1" model, from 2009. This was purchased for me by my employer.

In summary: FreeBSD can be made to work with MacBook Pros, but the hassles and compromises are not worth it.

Installation required getting rid of the GPT. I used the emergency shell on the FreeBSD-9 install disk to do that. Then the installation went fine.

I was unable to get the Broadcom wireless working at all. I tried all permutations of bwi,bwn drivers, and also ndis. I ended up settling for a USB wifi adapter, one chosen from the man page for urtw (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?urtw).

I doubt using an external Wifi adapter is the kind of experience you are looking for.

The nouveau driver for the video works decently. I had to patch the kernel so I could type tilde characters (strange but true).

Given the high premium Apple commands for their laptops, I can't recommend the subpar experience you will have using it as a FreeBSD laptop.

lambda

July 24th, 2011, 17:12

I'm using FreeBSD 8-stable (i think) on my MacBookPro5.5, it works reasonably well with the nvidia blob. I did not try wireless neither the touchpad. The Keyboard finally works kindof and power management is only working rudimentary (cpu scaling works).

It currently is somewhat of a pain, but I really think this does not need major hackery.
- wireless is on the way
- touchpad driver is on the way
and the acpi stuff should not be out of the ordinary.

I really hope this progresses, because I miss my proper OS. (Just thinking of the mess Lions FileVault FDE is in comparison with geli...)