mbp2018-bridge-drv vs USB-Storage-on-WSL2

mbp2018-bridge-drv

A driver for MacBook models 2018 and newer, which makes the keyboard, mouse and audio output work. (by MCMrARM)

USB-Storage-on-WSL2

This article describes how you can access your USB storage device from Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) (by jovton)

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mbp2018-bridge-drv

Posts with mentions or reviews of mbp2018-bridge-drv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-08.

Installing Linux on MacBook air 2018
3 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 8 May 2022
Debian 11 on T2 macs
3 projects | /r/debian | 15 Apr 2021

Does anyone happen to have info on how I might get things up and running? I have tried googling, but not finding much specific to Debian. What I have found points to MacBook Bridge/T2 Linux Driver, but my undersanding this is in the kernel from 5.7. Also found linux-mbp-arch but that is specific to arch, and wouldn't work on Debian yeah? Or could I run those patches against something to get a Debian compatible kernel?
Microsoft launches Surface Laptop 4
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2021

It's the other way around: Linux has some extra support for these laptops. And of course the place where extra support is required is the input devices. Despite Microsoft kinda pushing the industry to standardize on HID over I2C, they themselves now do HID over… uh… a custom protocol that runs over UART of all things.
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/surface_ag...
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hid/hid.git/...
Well at least it is HID inside I guess.
Meanwhile Apple used a custom simple protocol over SPI for the Broadwell-Kaby Lake generations (and now Apple Silicon), but the few "T2" generations went back to USB… over some truly cursed custom T2 USB host controller https://github.com/MCMrARM/mbp2018-bridge-drv (WTF)
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Also many Surface devices used awful Marvell Wi-Fi :/ At least the "Laptop 3" generation switched to Intel on Intel models and Qualcomm (seems like ath10k) on AMD ones.

USB-Storage-on-WSL2

Posts with mentions or reviews of USB-Storage-on-WSL2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-13.

Microsoft launches Surface Laptop 4
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2021

Just a note: one serious limitation I've encountered is that linux running under WSL2 (or WSL1 I believe) is unable to access USB. This was a show stopper for firmware development for me.
The solution seems to be uh, patch the kernel? https://github.com/jovton/USB-Storage-on-WSL2