mbx162 / gentoo-macbook-pro-16-2

code required to run gentoo on macbook pro 16,2

gentoo-macbook-pro-16-2

code required to run gentoo on macbook pro 16,2

this is a ongoing project as long as i have to patch things to have a working machine

Steps to Reproduce

• Get LiveCD and flush it on a USB stick (C2A Adapter) hthttps://github.com/marcosfad/mbp-ubuntu
• See working NVME, almost working keyboard/touchbar, wifi (tplink/rtl)
• Install (to get a working /boot with efi&co, cannot be done from gentoo)
• Setup kernel patch&build environment configure a kernel build bce and ib modules
• Setup gentoo disk, stage & chroot
• Hack genkernel to load bce on boot and deploy kernel (/usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86_64/modules_load should include industrialio_triggered_buffer apple-bce in MODULES_USB)
• boot-loop-boot-until in system
• setup the system

Things found on the way:

• several branches, forks and developers that publish code on github. none worked out of the box. what did work was the code in the live-cd
• keyboard works for luks lvm passphrase entry
• no wifi, no suspend

Things i add

• wifi: a 90degree usbc adapter and a rtl8192eu TP-Link TL-WN823N v2/v3 [Realtek RTL8192EU] https://github.com/clnhub/rtl8192eu-linux.git (unmodified)
• in /usr/share/genkernel/arch/x86_64 i add the apple-bce module to the MODULES_CRYPTO: apple-bce apple-ib-tb apple-ibridge apple-ib-als

Things that work

• ssd/processing/display/touchpad/keyboard

Things that dont

• suspend to ram
• backlit keys
• touchbar reliably switching between fn/nonfn display (fn+f1 still changes brightness)
• alt+ctrl+f1 to switch to console
• multitouch on trackpad

Useful Links

https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux https://wiki.t2linux.org/