Description

Haiku currently will boot, without many features on the current intel based Core 2 Duo Macbook.    This proposal seeks to remedy many of these limitations, particularly video, input, and main feature problems.  The intel_extreme driver currently does not handle internal LCDs, or the composite USB device used on the Macbook’s touchpad / keyboard.   These and other problems will be remedied by the development of native drivers, and updates to many of the great drivers present in the Haiku SVN tree.  Several things will not be explicitly supported in this bounty including EFI booting, Bluetooth, Hotkeys, display brightness, and the Atheros wireless chipset.

Technical information

Goal of the submission:

* Functioning overall support for Haiku on the Macbook

• Video:
• Support for TFT screen in accelerated mode (intel_extreme additions)
• Support for external DVI and VGA adapters
• Monitor brightness and auto-dimming will likely not be supported.
• Audio – Update of HDA audio driver for macbook codec / driver support.
• USB – Correct current issues preventing the driver from accessing the touchpad / ehci port.
• Native driver
• IR Remote – Basic Native Driver
• USB Touchpad additions – allow composite devices (trackpad + keyboard)
• Wireless 802.11 will not be supported
• Bluetooth will not be supported
• Hotkeys will not be supported unless it is possible without ACPI, etc.
• EFI Booting will not be supported.
• Obvious things such as dual layer burning, etc, will not be supported.

With latest revisions:

Keyboard and mouse are unsupported. (USB Stack problem)
Video works in VESA mode, intel_extreme driver works with external VGA monitor

Networking works well using Freebsd Yukon driver.

ISight – nonfunctional

Audio - nonfunctional.

SATA driver does not work without the addition of product/vendor ID.

Other documentation:

Haikuware post on installing Haiku onto the Macbook in parallels and using a native partition.

Blog posts with updates on progress.

Relevant information

Mactel Linux
Contains a lot of information on running Linux on the Mac. Will prove useful.

More Mactel Linux
Information on running Linux on the Macbook and links to the Linux drivers.

Intel Extreme Graphics Driver for Haiku:

Info I
Info II

Intel Pro 10/100/1000 driver:

Info I
Info II