Thunderbolt support?

[Henrik Frisk]

Hi,

I'm seeing different things about thunderbolt support and Linux. Anyone
have any experience? Specifically I would like to connect a PCIe
thunderbolt expansion unit to my MBP running Fedora 20. It is my impression
it will not work...

Best,
/Henrik

[CS DBA]

I recently moved from mac to Linux, I had a macbook pro retina and one 
of the big apple thunderbolt displays. I ordered a Thinkpad W540 that 
comes with a thunderbolt port.  I installed Fedora 20, connected the big 
apple thunderbolt display to the laptop thunderbolt port and it works 
perfectly

On 05/28/2014 03:52 PM, Henrik Frisk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing different things about thunderbolt support and Linux. 
> Anyone have any experience? Specifically I would like to connect a 
> PCIe thunderbolt expansion unit to my MBP running Fedora 20. It is my 
> impression it will not work...
>
> Best,
> /Henrik

[Chris Murphy]

On May 28, 2014, at 3:52 PM, Henrik Frisk  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing different things about thunderbolt support and Linux. Anyone have any experience? Specifically I would like to connect a PCIe thunderbolt expansion unit to my MBP running Fedora 20. It is my impression it will not work…

The DisplayPort portion of it does appear to work on Linux for built-in and external displays. There are some other issues though.

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/29954.html

Chris Murphy

[Alan]

On Wed, 2014-05-28 at 23:52 +0200, Henrik Frisk wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing different things about thunderbolt support and Linux.
> Anyone have any experience? Specifically I would like to connect a
> PCIe thunderbolt expansion unit to my MBP running Fedora 20. It is my
> impression it will not work...

I have a Thunderbolt Ethernet device and it works fine on my Intel NUC.
I have a Lenovo W540, but I have not tested it on that yet.