driver for apple storage controller 106b:2001

[da...@craven.ch]

Hi guys,

I'm having trouble getting Linux running on the new Macbook 2015 model. I'm trying to find the source code for the 106b:2001 driver, or a specification or something.

I took a quick look at https://svn.macosforge.org/repository/darwinbuild/trunk/ and it seems that they aren't nearly enough files for this to be the source of the darwin 10 kernel?

Does puredarwin work on the latest Macbook model? Is the source for the controller available somewhere? How do I find it?

Thank you

David

[Ferdinand Klinzer]

hello david,

thanks for joining the puredarwin mailinglist,

but i think we dont have any positive message to you about the source code for your storage controller

the problem is that apple doesnt want that there will be more drivers for darwin in the future more and more 

all will be only available on osx only.

But does puredarwin work on the latest macbook model i dont know we dont have any source to the latest macbook

model you would be welcome to try our latest puredarwin image https://puredarwin.googlecode.com/files/puredarwinxmas.tar.xz

and try it out on your macbook.

If i found out any more infos for your controller i will mail it to you, but for now i dont have any more infos.

cheers

ferdinand 

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[David Craven]

Hi Ferdinand

Thank you very much for your reply. I assume if it does work it will
be due to binary drivers then. Sadly that's not a solution that will
work for me for anything permanent, the only option I see is passing
my Macbook on, like I usually do with old hardware.

Cheers
David

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[Ferdinand Klinzer]

indeed i think you drive better with old hardware ;) 

[daid kahl]

Hey David,

It's been a number of years, but upon a time I had a triple-booting Macbook (Mac OS X, Gentoo Linux, Windows XP).  I never really got around to writing up all the instructions on how to install the systems, and by these days most of the information would be very deprecated I suspect.

One thing I recall was that in order to get the iSight camera working in GNU/Linux I had to copy some firmware directly from the Mac OS X partition, and also depending on the order of rebooting and use, it would fail in Gentoo.  (The solution was you could never soft reboot from Mac OS X into Linux if the iSight was used in Mac OS, but had to make a hardware complete shutdown, or something strange like that.)  

I did have very good success with the program called rEFIt (no longer being updated, but a fork is: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/).  In that case, one installs a minimal EFI boot partition (this is automatically done if you install Mac OS X normally), and in principle I strongly recommend at least a minimal Mac OS X install for troubleshooting, etc.  It can be tricky to get an extremely minimal one, but with some tricks I had a 10.4 OS stuck in about 2.4 GB of space upon a time (had to remove the RAM swap space used for sleeping to get below about 5 GB).  Also, when I had a solo-booting system, the computer would sit there for 30 seconds on each boot, hoping to find some other boot structure.

Another word to the wise if you ever have Linux and Mac OS X installed next to each other.  Be *very* cautious to let Mac OS access, touch, read, or anything to an ext3-type file system.  There have always been various third-party tools, and perhaps they have improved over the years, but one of them once corrupted 11% of the entire volume just attempting to read it, which was basically all of /usr and some other system-critical items.  (Luckily, I had backups.)

Unfortunately, I don't have a specific answer about the driver for the SSD, but all things being equal, I had a very successful Linux system on my old MacBook until the motherboard died.

Cheers,

daid