Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> writes: > On Oct 16 23:46:22, d1.and...@icloud.com wrote: >> OpenBSD running on a MacBook Pro (M1, 2020). >> It’s not about the drivers, I don’t even see the wifi card at the dmesg! >> The strange fact is that on previous installations everything went >> smoothly, I installed OpenBSD and then the bwi firmware downloaded >> previously on an SD card from my macOS installation. >> >> What could’ve changed? Well the only thing that comes to my mind is that I >> updated from macOS 14.5 to 14.7. > > https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=172726951910711&w=2 > > I also blame the macOS upgrade, because I even lost bwfm > with _the_same_ OpenBSD kernel.
In short, upgrading macOS can have negative affects as it can change things in the EFI partition afaik. I'm not one of our M1/2 experts, but from my own experience using OpenBSD on my systems is I think we use device information and firmware from the system/EFI partition. (I'm sure a dev will correct me if I'm wrong here.) So, tl;dr: it's not safe to blindly run macOS updates. It's been known to cause havoc with Asahi and OpenBSD because of how it changes things we were depending on. -dv
