Intel Haswell support - Any updates?

[Adrian Chadd]

run -HEAD on it. The wifi works great (it's atheros.)

All that's missing is haswell graphics.


-a


On 17 September 2015 at 11:23, Russell L. Carter <rcarter at pinyon.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 09/17/15 10:40, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>
>> El día Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 11:02:07AM -0400, Kris Moore
>> escribió:
>>
>>> On 09/17/2015 09:48, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>>>
>>>> El día Thursday, September 17, 2015 a las 10:41:43PM +0900, Lundberg,
>>>> Johannes escribió:
>>>>
>>>>> Same here. I would personally definitely buy new hardware from Intel if
>>>>> FreeBSD worked on it (not vesa...)
>>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> What dow you have against vesa? I run CURRENT on some Acer C720
>>>> Chromebooks with Haswell chipset in Vesa mode. And you will not note it.
>>>> I have never ever had such a fast desktop (KDE4) before. I can live fine
>>>> with Vesa until Haswell suport is there.
>>>>
>>>>         matthias
>>>
>>>
>>> BTW, have you tried the xf86-video-scfb driver? It works much better
>>> than vesa here. The only catch is you have to be booted UEFI with CSM
>>> disabled. Using it on my X1 Carbon, gets 3k resolution properly and
>>> everything. Thanks to Glen Barber for bringing that to my attention.
>>
>>
>> The Chromebook Acer C720 does not has UEFI; it runs Coreboot with
>> SeaBIOS as payload.
>>
>> The Xorg runs fine without any xorg.conf file, just detects the video as
>> Vesa with 1366x768 resolution, the max of the 11" screen of this
>> netbook.
>
>
> Do you have 802.11n and hibernate working on that c720?  I put linux on
> mine for that reason.  Although despite immense efforts I can't get
> the trackpad to be detected.  I tried bringing up 10.2 on it but
> couldn't get it to boot.  These things are just awesome.  4G memory
> + i3 + 6hr battery for $240 delivered.
>
> Russell
>
>>         matthias
>>
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