I’ve just released pommed v1.22, which has been collecting improvements and reworks over the past few weeks; this release also adds partial support for the Late 2008 laptops.
Partial support means the LCD backlight is not supported yet. The method for controlling the backlight has to be figured out; if you hear of anything, let me know.
You’ll need a recent kernel for full support on these machines, which means either a late 2.6.28-rc or possibly an early 2.6.29-rc. It all depends on how fast the patches get applied to mainline. Patches are needed for the keyboard quirks, trackpad support, applesmc support and sound support, as usual.
Update: proper trackpad support has not been merged in 2.6.28 and is scheduled for 2.6.29.
On the improvements front, wmpomme has become event-driven, eliminating the fixed-rate update and associated wakeups and visual ugliness in some configurations; pommed has got some code fixes, though nothing major; gpomme has got a new Japanese translation.
Hopefully the next release will bring full Late 2008 support.