Dell XPS 15 9570

Year introduced: 2018

CPU: Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90GHz
Ethernet: None
Graphics:
- Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Mobile)
- NVIDIA GP107M GeForce GTX 1050Ti with 4GiB GDDR5
Memory: 32GiB (2 x 16GiB 2666MHz DDR4 SODIMM)
Screen: 5.6“ 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) InfinityEdge Anti-Reflective Touch IPS100% AdobeRGB 400-Nits display
Storage: 1TB Toshiba XG5 PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD
Wireless: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac (Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.2)

Component		Status	Details
Graphics	Graphical sessions	✔
Graphics	Backlight (brightness) control	✘	ACPI method errors when hotkeys pressed
Input devices	Keyboard backlight	✔
	Touchpad	✔
	Touch screen		As of 2020/09/13, wulf@'s iichid(4) driver must be compiled and loaded.
	Trackpoint	N/A
Media keys	Brightness keys	✘
Media keys	Volume keys	✔
Network	Ethernet	N/A
Network	Wi-Fi	✘
Other	Battery	✔
	Bluetooth
	CD/DVD drive	N/A
	ExpressCard reader	N/A
	Fan	✔
	Fingerprint reader		HTMicroelectronics Goodix Fingerprint Device on USB (27c6:5395)
	PC card reader	N/A
	SD card reader	✘
	SIM card slot	N/A
	Smart card reader	N/A
	Suspend & resume
	Webcam	✔	CN0VGCNHLOG00899A3KCA00 IntegratedWebcamHD on USB (uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Integrated_Webcam_HD (0c45:671d))
Ports	DisplayPort	N/A
	FireWire	N/A
	HDMI
	Thunderbolt	✘
	USB	✔
	VGA	N/A
Sound	Headphone jack
	Microphone jack
	Speakers	✔
Last update: <<TIME»

Legend
- ✔ OK
- Somewhat OK: requires additional tweaking or works worse than expected
- Present but status unknown or untested
- ✘ Does not work
- nothing Not sure if present

Fix LCD backlight control.
Fix Thunderbird 3 hotplug.
Fix ACPI suspend/resume.
Port Linux/OpenBSD SD card reader driver to FreeBSD.

Reboot laptop.
Press <F12> before DELL splash screen appears.

The following assumes a GPT partition scheme with FreeBSD to be installed to a ZFS partition. BIOS/UEFI changes will make the stock Windows partition unbootable, but those changes can be reversed to boot Windows.