Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 10:45:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: "M." <maficccc@gmail.com> Cc: Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>, John F Carr <jfc@mit.edu>, "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Samsung Chromebook ARM "SNOW" model XE303C12 Message-ID: <202208081745.278Hjrn2049947@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAKkTdTOA3PAHZSQ-_5EY7p30mQ-eaHzFpY_G64ZbCiqJ9FFPOA@mail.gmail.com>
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> You can try checkout release/12.3.0 back and compile the chromebook kernel > for now. > > make TARGET_ARCH=armv6 KERNCONF=CHROMEBOOK-SNOW buildworld buildkernel Last time I played with a Chrome SNOW it had issues with keyboard interrupt storms. Using an external USB keyboard made it possible to get logged in and do a few things, but I found this rather annoying and abondoned the use of that machine in favor of a little Acer 1410. > > > ne 7. 8. 2022 v 20:44 odes?latel Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> > napsal: > > > It seems more complicated than I thought. > > > > Il giorno dom 7 ago 2022 alle ore 19:46 John F Carr <jfc@mit.edu> ha > > scritto: > > > >> I have one of those Chromebooks but I have not tried to boot FreeBSD. > >> The wiki page is obsolete. It references a configuration file > >> CHROMEBOOK-SNOW which was removed in 2019 by the commit below. I don't > >> know if the Chromebook kernel was in the "not working" category or > >> "switched to GENERIC" category. > >> > >> commit 9a042e7d03ae13425132966cd3f3416775157aed > >> Author: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org> > >> Date: Wed Apr 10 19:27:14 2019 +0000 > >> > >> arm: kernel: Remove old kernel configs > >> > >> Follow up to r346095 > >> All those kernels are either not working or the release have switched > >> to GENERIC > >> > >> > >> > On Aug 7, 2022, at 04:58 , Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > Hello. > >> > > >> > A lot of years ago,I bought the cool notebook "Samsung Chromebook > >> "SNOW" model XE303C12" where it seems that only ChromeOS and Linux can be > >> installed. The specs are the following ones : > >> > > >> > ? CPU: Samsung Exynos 5 Dual (5250) (Cortex A15; 1.7GHz dual core > >> cpu) > >> > ? GPU: ARM Mali-T604 (Quad Core) > >> > ? 1366x768 screen & HDMI external connector > >> > ? RAM: 2 GiB DDR3 > >> > ? The memory is not upgradable as it is soldered directly > >> to the board > >> > ? Disk: 16 GiB SSD (connected to eMMC) > >> > ? SD & USB expansion slots > >> > ? WiFi: 802.11 a/b/g/n > >> > ? USB slot can handle Ethernet dongle > >> > > >> > I'm trying to look on Internet to understand if I can install FreeBSD > >> without having all the troubles explained here : > >> > > >> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Chromebook > >> > > >> > Which options do I have to have a fully working FreeBSD system on that > >> machine ? If it can't be installed natively,maybe these two options are > >> feasible ? : > >> > > >> > 1) to virtualize FreeBSD using qemu and kvm > >> > 2) to install FreeBSD using the crouton chroot method ? > >> > > >> > What else ? What do you think ? Maybe you know some specific tutorial > >> that's more updated and that can allow me to install freeBSD on that > >> machine making almost everything work as expected. > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Mario. > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Mario. > > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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