Re: [Tails-dev] Tails on MacBook?

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Autore: Marco Betschart
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Oggetto: Re: [Tails-dev] Tails on MacBook?
Hi Intrigeri,

Thanks for your feedback. I understand the situation and your proposed steps are absolutely legitimate from a Tails angle.
What would be the best approach for provide you a patch? I’ve seen https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/code <https://tails.boum.org/contribute/how/code>

But since I only own my MacBook 12“ I’m not quite sure if it is fast enough to build the whole project and how I would ensure everything is working correctly afterwards?

Cheers,
Marco


> Am 29.05.2018 um 20:08 schrieb intrigeri <intrigeri@???>:
>
> Hi Marco,
>
> Marco Betschart:
>> I wanted to boot Tails on my MacBook 12“ from 2015, but the keyboard as well as the trackpad do not work at all.
>> Seems like this is a known issue and there is a driver available which should help out:
>> https://mknowles.com.au/wordpress/2017/11/02/installing-fedora-27-on-a-2017-macbook-12-retina-macbook-101/
>> <https://mknowles.com.au/wordpress/2017/11/02/installing-fedora-27-on-a-2017-macbook-12-retina-macbook-101/>
>
>> Are there any plans for adding this to the official Tails?
>
> This driver is marked "WIP" (work in progress) and as far as I know
> it's not been submitted for inclusion into the Linux kernel yet.
> The list of known issues on
> https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver is not exactly confidence
> inspiring. So it's not available in Debian and thus not in Tails yet.
> Once the authors of this driver deem it ready for prime time, it'll
> propagate to Debian and then to Tails.
>
> In the meantime, the amount of work required to go out of our way and
> include this third-party driver does not fit into our
> current resources. But assuming it's Free Software and builds
> reproducibly, I think we would happily consider a good patch that
> implements this :)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> intrigeri