Modern MacBook experiences

[theokeist]

Does anyone have macbook experiences with modern Apple hardware MacBook 9,1 an up?

[Nexus-6]

The search function in this forum is your friend. There are plenty of threads where people shared their experience, including myself.
If you can’t find an answer, please be more specific indicating your model. Haiku’s experience with a Mac may vary, a lot.
However, I can tell you that models until 2015 work but usually Wi-Fi, special keys, ALS, keyboard backlight and graphic driver do not work (framebuffer fallback is needed with no brightness control).

[theokeist]

Hmm besides graphic drivers… Haiku does not have intel video drivers form *BSD? Are there even graphics drivers when what only does Haiku have for rendering isn’t even at OpenGL level-- 2D rendering only

[_AP]

Mac Install (Do not partition)

I just wanted to let people know so they don’t mess up their install. I previously mentioned a workaround so you don’t need to use rEFInd to boot Haiku on a Mac. Install boot camp windows environment, boot Haiku USB, format windows partition as BeFS, move efi files manually (probably the one stored in platform_loaders). There you have a bootable “Windows” option when you load the boot picker on Mac. I think I broke it. I went to partition MacintoshHD using Disk Utility to make a small fat32…

Porting Drivers

I didn’t say I copied them loosely. I meant that I had copied the files that were not in folders: (Deskbar, haiku_loader.bios_ia32, kernel_x86_64, runtime_loader, Tracker). I know Tracker probably wasn’t relevant. While it might not be the best way to do things, for a mac user, it might be preferable to do that as opposed to installing rEFInd. I am not entirely sure doing a boot camp windows install was needed to make this work. Next mac I install on I’ll try without, but I don’t want to fi…

This is a 9,2. Probably same hardware except for display size. Let me know if you run into any issues

[Zenja]

Here is a video I made of Haiku on native MacBook Pro 2014 laptop.

Haiku OS - Booting on real hardware (3 different devices)