Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Re: Apple Macbook Air (M1) lost bwfm

On Sep 25 14:59:09, stu.lists@spacehopper.org wrote:
> On 2024-09-25, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> > This is 7.6-beta/arm64 (#179) on an MBA (M1, 2020),
> > the last kernel used is this:
> >
> > https://github.com/janstary/dmesg/blob/master/apple-macbook-air-A2337.20240915
> >
> > While this listing shows
> > bwfm0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM4378" rev 0x03: msi
> > and it worked (I pkg_add-u'd the packages after the upgrade),
> > now I don't even have bwfm - with this same kernel, or with
> > an older /obsd (#31 of May's 7.5).
> >
> > I blame the macOS upgrade to 15.0 (24A335) but I can't be sure.
> > Is it possible the macOS upgrade did something to the firmware?
> > OpenBSD has bwfm-firmware-20200316.1.3p3 installed.
>
> OpenBSD/arm64 on Apple hardware doesn't use firmware from bwfm-firmware,
> there's some process to copy it from MacOS

Is there some other reason why bwfm-firmware is installed then?

Jan

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