Sun, Oct 14th, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Thus it seems that the Apple hardware hasn't been reverse engineered sufficiently for these functions to be implemented in Linux.
I've found that Gentoo Linux supports most if not all of my hardware. The only device I wasn't sure about was the Wireless adapter, but I was able to compile the driver into the kernel and the firmware is available in portage
I suppose we should be impressed that Linux runs on it at all, since Apple are reputedly not very open about their hardware anymore, and in fact they haven't been open about it for a long time.
Mac's are pretty much an Apple branded PC nowadays. The only real difference I can see is that the Apple Computers switched to UEFI well before the PC The only trouble, well not trouble but complicated part was installing and using GRUB2 and setting up a system to boot with UEFI. Some pages I found usefull are below. Brett. http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2#EFI en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/UEFI