From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>,
jikos@kernel.org, Jochen Radmacher <jradmacher@gmx.de>,
Yang Hongyang <burnef@gmail.com>,
coldnew.tw@gmail.com, George Hilios <ghilios@gmail.com>,
Janez Urevc <janez@janezurevc.name>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MacBook8,1 (2015) HID Hardware Support
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 10:22:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150919172241.GB7081@dtor-ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOviyajKA-s4Y6a5OfJmtO7H2Uc4bxCZ0dwCnAzA0K=odjegMA@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-19 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-19 17:10 MacBook8,1 (2015) HID Hardware Support Aleksa Sarai
2015-09-19 17:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2015-09-19 17:27 ` Aleksa Sarai
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