01:00 <wookey> bluetooth is not working on my M1 air. after some prodding I found that the hci device is simply not found and /sys/class/bluetooth is empty. It looks like the issue is that module hci_bcm4377 is loaded but it finds no firmware.

01:00 <wookey> It wants brcm/brcmbt4378b1-apple,shikoku-m.bin' and 'brcm/brcmbt4378b1-apple,shikoku.bin'

01:01 <wookey> and these are indeed not present in /lib/firmware.

01:02 <wookey> I gather that the firmwares are extracted from MacOS by the installer, and I do indeed have loads of firmware files and my wifi works OK so this appeared to wokr OK, but my original install was a couple of years ago and I guess bluetooth wasn't done then. Updated have got me a 6.5 kernel but not this firmware file.

01:04 <wookey> Is there a way to get hold of these files from somewhere, or re-run the firmware extraction without a whole re-install (which I assume would break my set-up with a lot of files and context set up)?

06:36 <chadmed> wookey: run asahi-fwupdate as root

06:47 <mps> chadmed: doesn't this just update /boot/efi/vendorfw files from /boot/efi/asahi/all_firmware.tar.gz

06:48 <chadmed> yes thats exactly what it does

06:49 <chadmed> the script gets updated as we add supported fw. if the install predates bluetooth, then a run of asahi-fwupdate should add the bluetooth firmware to the vendorfw tarball

06:49 <chadmed> this then gets unpacked into /lib/firmware/vendor by the initrd

06:50 <mps> thanks

06:52 <mps> would be interesting to know how to update /boot/efi/asahi/all_firmware.tar.gz from linux/bsd when apple releases new ones

06:54 <mps> iirc install have option to just upgrade firmware?

06:56 <chadmed> i dont remember if we ended up building that out

06:57 <chadmed> i think we have an option to upgrade the entire ESP/stub so basically the same thing

06:57 <chadmed> all_firmware.tar.gz should never really need updating though

06:58 <mps> aha, didn't know (or I forgot). thank you explanation

06:58 <mps> for explanation*

06:59 <mps> (looks like nowadays one morning coffee is not enough)

11:52 <runxiyu> my trackpad responds very differently in alpine, vs gentoo/fedora/macos

11:53 <runxiyu> gentoo and fedora feel the same, and don't have exactly the same cursor acceleration as macos, but all feel pretty good

11:53 <runxiyu> not sure if i messed up my sway config or something

11:55 <runxiyu> ill try accel_profile

12:00 <mps> trackpad (touchpad) is my big source of irritation on apple silicon with linux/alpine

12:01 <mps> (wonder who was so "smart" designer to put touchpad on most irritable part of computer)