From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756959Ab2EBUZS (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2012 16:25:18 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:43969 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756407Ab2EBUZQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2012 16:25:16 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 13:25:09 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Nico Schottelius , Francois Rigaut , LKML Subject: Re: Linux Support for Thunderbolt using Apple Monitor Message-ID: <20120502202509.GA26798@kroah.com> References: <20120419163800.GB13977@schottelius.org> <20120502163629.GE928@schottelius.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120502163629.GE928@schottelius.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 06:36:29PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote: > Hey Francois, > > Francois Rigaut [Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:45:52AM +1000]: > > I have a MBA 13" (mid 2011), and I believe we already have been in contact > > about the state of linux on it. Thanks for your early work on it, it helped > > me quite a bit in the initial setup. > > Great to have helped! > > > I agree with you that linux is now pretty stable on MBAs. I'm exclusively > > running linux on mine, and beside the thunderbold/displayport support issue > > (that's why I am replying to this thread), I have been more than happy with > > it. btw, I don't experience the X crashes myself, and the network (both > > wired and wireless) is working flawlessly. > > Network is mostly working fine nowadays as well, besides having to issue > "reassociate" in wpa_cli after each resume/suspend and a new bug in Xorg > that forces me to "rmmod bcm5974; modprobe bcm5974;" to make Xorg > recognsie the touchpad again (speaking of Linux 3.3.3-1-ARCH and > X.Org X Server 1.12.1 and xf86-input-synaptics 1.5.99.904-1). > > > Now to the thunderbolt support: I have myself a thunderbolt 27" at work. In > > a nutshell: [...] > > This smells exactly like in the old Linux days, when an external monitor > only worked when it was connected at startup. > > I've tried to get some information about thunderbolt, but it seems Intel > is currently unwillingly to give information out: > > http://communities.intel.com/message/155263#155263 > > I'm wondering if anyone from the Intel developers reading this list > can comment on this? Thunderbolt should show up to the kernel just as a "normal" PCIE link, so there shouldn't be anything special we need to do to handle this at all (or at least my Intel contacts said that.) Note, I haven't tested this yet, so I can't verify it, but if you have the hardware, you should be able to. greg k-h