From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756041Ab2EBTEy (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2012 15:04:54 -0400 Received: from mx3.schottelius.org ([77.109.138.221]:58745 "EHLO mx3.schottelius.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753405Ab2EBTEx (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2012 15:04:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 18:36:29 +0200 From: Nico Schottelius To: Francois Rigaut Cc: Nico Schottelius , LKML Subject: Re: Linux Support for Thunderbolt using Apple Monitor Message-ID: <20120502163629.GE928@schottelius.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nico Schottelius , Francois Rigaut , LKML References: <20120419163800.GB13977@schottelius.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: echo $message | gpg -e $sender -s | netcat mailhost 25 X-Netzseite: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/ X-System-Info: brief (Linux 3.3.3-1-ARCH x86_64) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? Cheers, Nico -- PGP key: 7ED9 F7D3 6B10 81D7 0EC5 5C09 D7DC C8E4 3187 7DF0