Re: Intel + Thunderbolt Driver

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From: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon_at_dec.sakura.ne.jp>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 00:07:30 UTC

On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:39:27 -0500
"Gerard E. Seibert" <gerard_seibert@outlook.com> wrote:

> I was just wondering if anyone had heard or knows when FreeBSD will be
> able to support Intel's "Thunderbolt" technology? The lack of a driver
> that works for FreeBSD has made it impossible for me to update my
> system beyond version 11.4.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)

CC'ing -hackers ML, as -stable ML wouldn't fit for this.

For anyone on -hackers ML:
Related topic is in progress (very very slowly) on [1] below.
(Gerard and I are already on it.)

You may feel it's unrelated reading the title, but actually it is
caused by the behaviour of Intel ThunderBolt controller.

[1] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237666

> 
> -- 
> Jerry
> 
> "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
> 

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Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>