Is this Driver Maintained?

[snoweuph]

For me it looks like this driver isn't really maintained anymore. taking the source and trying to build it on Kernel 6.12.4 shows me that it doesn't even compile.

Looking at the forks, lets it look like there are some people partially maintaining their forks, but its all spread out, and to get it to work, you have to jump between forks and copy their fixes.

If you as the maintainer don't have the capacity to maintain this anymore, is it maybe possible to get all people interested to work on this together in an last effort, so that they structure themselves to a point where they can take over?

I really would love to work on this, but sadly I've never really worked that low, so I don't really get the code of this. I personally would love to refactor this with good documentation, but looking at it: that would be a pretty big task for somebody not knowing a lot about low level stuff or the kernel at all.

[AdityaGarg8]

https://github.com/t2linux/apple-ib-drv

It being maintained by t2linux for a long time.

[AdityaGarg8]

Although, since they have a new driver for touchbar on T2 Macs, that fork is not updated. So if you are on a T2 Mac, t2linux wiki should be good

[AdityaGarg8]

I'll see if I can PR a compile fix for the older Macs, since I myself am a maintainer at t2linux

[AdityaGarg8]

https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/apple-touchbar-drv

You can get the fixed and latest maintained version for older non T2 Macs here @snoweuph

[snoweuph]

Im on a Macbook 13,2" Pro Touchbar

[AdityaGarg8]

Yes it is maintained, but by us (t2linux)

[snoweuph]

ahh okay, good to know

[snoweuph]

which branch of yours should I use though? i gues mbp15 is wrong , after all this is a 13,2 2017 pro model

[AdityaGarg8]

https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/apple-touchbar-drv

use the main branch from my fork. The I've opened a PR to the t2linux repo mbp15 branch, which is yet to be merged

[AdityaGarg8]

If you are on Ubuntu you can simply install the apple-touchbar package from my apt repo as well

[snoweuph]

Im using fedora

[snoweuph]

https://github.com/AdityaGarg8/apple-touchbar-drv

use the main branch from my fork. The I've opened a PR to the t2linux repo mbp15 branch, which is yet to be merged

ahh okay

[snoweuph]

Tryed your version on main (dkms, after all im on fedora) and it installed, but its borken under 6.12.6 with it. no dkms and dractur errors with it tough, just that im stuck in lightdm, the login doesnt work with the driver instaled and the ctrl+alt key kombos dont work either

[AdityaGarg8]

Tryed your version on main (dkms, after all im on fedora) and it installed, but its borken under 6.12.6 with it. no dkms and dractur errors with it tough, just that im stuck in lightdm, the login doesnt work with the driver instaled and the ctrl+alt key kombos dont work either

We haven't really changed any significant code, it's the same as was developed by the author. Only changes requested by upstream have been done. I can't help you to "fix" the driver since I work for T2 Macs, and the sole reason for maintaining this driver is that it also has code for T2.

[AdityaGarg8]

If you want, I can fix the version in this repo to 6.12

[AdityaGarg8]

You can try that

[AdityaGarg8]

If you want, I can fix the version in this repo to 6.12

Or maybe no, it's very old code, not possible to fix now

[AdityaGarg8]

Probably try blacklisting the drivers and modprobe them one by one to see what's wrong