Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021

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Phoronix: Apple Touch Bar Linux Driver Hopes For Upstream In 2021

For more than four years Apple's MacBook Pro has featured the Touch Bar as a display / control bar input device above the keyboard on these laptops. While there have been reports of Apple potentially phasing out the Touch Bar in future models, an open-source Linux driver for the component is still working its way toward the mainline kernel...

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[elatllat]

Things still not working (wifi, audio);

https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

[ddriver]

Why? The touch bar has already been scrapped.

[Awesomeness]

Why? The touch bar has already been scrapped.

No, it hasn't https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-pro-...u_large_2x.jpg and the existing devices don't just evaporate.

[CommunityMember]

Why? The touch bar has already been scrapped.

Old hardware never dies, it just turns into someones Linux box who then wants driver and kernel support for 20 years....

[scottishduck]

Glad to see the start of upstreaming this code. Handling the many out-of-tree and poorly maintained gits for this code has been a real PITA.

[lucrus]

Next time vote with your wallet.

[Viki Ai]

Heh. Maybe under Linux the 'feature' may find some actual use. I work in a creative sector where I am pretty much the only non-Mac user in the entire department, and even I can't find anyone that ever had anything good to say about the touch bar!

[carewolf]

Why? The touch bar has already been scrapped.

Linux is famous for supporting old stuff.

[nabero]

Linux is famous for supporting old stuff.

There are quite a few hardware where I would have loved to see Linux running first. Super Famicom for example...