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Manual Pages — ATOPCASE

NAME

atopcase – Apple HID-over-SPI transport driver

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
HARDWARE
SYSCTL VARIABLES
FILES
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
AUTHORS
BUGS

SYNOPSIS

To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device atopcase device intelspi device spibus device hidbus device hkbd

Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

atopcase_load="YES"
hkbd_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

The atopcase driver provides support for Human Interface Devices (HID) on Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) buses on Apple Intel Macs.

HARDWARE

The atopcase driver supports the following MacBooks produced in 2015-2018 years:

Macbook8,1
Macbook9,1
Macbook10,1
MacbookPro11,4
MacbookPro12,1
MacbookPro13,1
MacbookPro13,2
MacbookPro13,3
MacbookPro14,1
MacbookPro14,2
MacbookPro14,3

SYSCTL VARIABLES

The following variables are available as both sysctl(8) variables and loader(8) tunables:

hw.hid.atopcase.debug
	Debug output level, where 0 is debugging disabled and larger values increase debug message verbosity. Default is 0.

FILES

`/dev/backlight/atopcase0`
	Keyboard backlight(8) device node.

SEE ALSO

acpi(4), backlight(8), loader(8), loader.conf(5).

HISTORY

The atopcase driver first appeared in FreeBSD 14.0.

AUTHORS

The atopcase driver was originally written by Val Packett <Mt val@packett.cool> and marginally improved upon by Vladimir Kondratyev <Mt wulf@FreeBSD.org>.

This manual page was written by Vladimir Kondratyev <Mt wulf@FreeBSD.org>.

BUGS

Device interrupts are not acknowledged on some hardware that results in interrupt storm. Installation of Darwin OSI in acpi(4) driver fixes the issue. To install Darwin OSI add following lines to loader.conf(5):

hw.acpi.install_interface="Darwin" hw.acpi.remove_interface="Windows 2009, Windows 2012"

ATOPCASE (4)

August 17, 2023

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