Is anybody else interested in the ThinkPad x13s?

robroy

robroy

Fellow FreeBSD Fans,

I noticed that last month OpenBSD added ThinkPad x13s support.

I've been meaning to pick up a ThinkPad, and I've always loved fanlessness.

Are any other FreeBSD users interested in this laptop? 'anybody happen to know whether FreeBSD aims to support it?

Happy days to you buddies.

Rob Roy
 
Interested yes.
I can't afford $1K on 'hopes it might work out'.
This thing should cost about 500 bucks with support.
See chromebooks at one third or less....

PineBookPro might be my next laptop.
 
I am interested.

My second-hand ThinkPad x13s boots a 15.0-CURRENT snapshot from "memstick" install media and a VM-image, but always hits mountroot> and does not allow keyboard input at that time, even with an external USB keyboard.

Any suggestions?
 
michaeldexter said:
I am interested.

My second-hand ThinkPad x13s boots a 15.0-CURRENT snapshot from "memstick" install media and a VM-image, but always hits mountroot> and does not allow keyboard input at that time, even with an external USB keyboard.

Any suggestions?
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You might want to try loading OpenSolaris SPL kernel module (opensolaris.ko) per these instructions from FreeBSD arm64 wiki:

https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm64#SoftIron_Overdrive_1000

Even though this is listed specifically for that hardware platform I've used it to get other aarch64 boards to properly boot images which otherwise could only boot as far as 'mountroot>' prompt.

Hope that helps...
 
These use a Qualcomm Snapdragon right? There is stuff in base for Qualcomm. Not much though.

/usr/src/sys/conf/files.arm64
# Qualcomm
arm64/qualcomm/qcom_gcc.c optional qcom_gcc fdt
dev/qcom_mdio/qcom_mdio_ipq4018.c optional qcom_mdio fdt mdio mii
 
michaeldexter said:
I'll try the opensolaris.ko suggestion from above.
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Wow that wiki page is out of date.

I tried 14.2-RELEASE UFS and ZFS VM-IMAGEs, manually loading the kernel, opensolaris.ko, and zfs.ko for ZFS, and got the same mountroot> with no keyboard input, despite the keyboard working with the loader menu. Selecting the "Linux" option in BIOS does not help. The exact error is:

Solaris: NOTICE: Cannot find the pool label for 'zroot'
Mounting from zfs:zroot/ROOT/default failed with error 5; retrying for 3 more seconds
Solaris: NOTICE: Cannot find the pool label for 'zroot'

Not having keyboard intput at mountroot> leaves few debugging options and the 15.0-CURRENT snapshot from last week has the same issue.

The only other suggestion I have received was to PXE boot the system. Any other suggestions?
 
Erichans said:
With my thinkpad P50 an external (wireless MS keyboard) can trigger BIOS setup and functions there.


For clarity, does your external USB keyboard function in the loader as well?
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Both the built-in keyboard and an external one work at the loader step, but neither work once the kernel loads, notably at 'mountroot>'.
 
Try pressing some keys repeatedly when you saw first characters in screen. then you should write some command to continue loading process. (something like boot or autoboot etc)

I think the problem is finding the correct device to use as root fs. I think you can set in kernel configuration file (or somewhere else) which partition should be used as root fs.
 
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