On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 03:48:06PM +0200, Lari Rasku wrote:
> I've been thinking about getting a laptop with a Near Field Communication
> module, but I'm worried if it'll work on OpenBSD. A search through the
> mailing list archives, man pages and packages revealed only the the
> qtconnectivity package, whose description holds the following paragraph:
>
> Qt NFC enables connectivity between NFC enabled devices.
> Be warned that Qt NFC on OpenBSD may need some additional
> components.
>
> Which seems to suggest that it's possible, but doesn't mention what those
> "additional components" might be. Does anyone have any firm knowledge?
>
I am quite certain that OpenBSD contains no drivers for any NFC devices.
I have an NFC device in a laptop. If it is enabled in the BIOS
OpenBSD hangs at boot due to an interrupt storm. I don't know if
this happens on other machines, but you may even have to disable
the NFC device in the BIOS in order to use OpenBSD at all...
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