A 2013 Macbook Air has just been freed from the chains of the bloated legacy of Tim C!

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  • facetimehd

    Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam

    • Nice I also installed linux in my old macbook air. For the webcam I suggest looking at this

  • facetimehd-firmware

    FacetimeHD firmware download and extraction tool

    • Clone the git repository with $ "git clone https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd-firmware.git"

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  • bcwc_pcie

    Discontinued Reverse engineered Linux driver for the FacetimeHD (Broadcom 1570) PCIe webcam [Moved to: https://github.com/patjak/facetimehd]

    • Clone the driver's code: $ "git clone" https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie.git Change into that dir: $ "cd bcwc_pcie"

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