Linux on the Mac — state of the union [LWN.net]

Linux on the Mac — state of the union

Posted Dec 1, 2016 2:45 UTC (Thu) by montj2 (guest, #111739)
In reply to: Linux on the Mac — state of the union by mmeehan
Parent article: Linux on the Mac — state of the union

What about the custom touchbar support? Do you think that will *ever* be possible? I mean, we're talking about several generations of Apple products that will fail to even support function keys.

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Linux on the Mac — state of the union

Posted Dec 1, 2016 14:49 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (2 responses)

Touchbar falls back to F-keys by default if no special configuration is applied.

Linux on the Mac — state of the union

Posted Dec 1, 2016 15:26 UTC (Thu) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118) [Link] (1 responses)

You have to load operating system into TouchBar during boot – https://onemoreadmin.wordpress.com/2016/11/27/the-untouch...
So I doubt it "falls back to F-keys", by default it seem to be empty.

Linux on the Mac — state of the union

Posted Dec 1, 2016 15:39 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Yes, but it's done through EFI. I don't think there's anything that needs to be done by the OS itself.