Thursday, October 31, 2024

Re: Apple Macbook Air (M1) lost bwfm

On 2024-10-30, Jan Stary <hans@stare.cz> wrote:
> 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?

Yes - to simplify things.


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