From nobody Mon Aug 8 17:45:53 2022 X-Original-To: freebsd-arm@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4M1kBz1Jw3z4YdZG for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2022 17:46:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (br1.CN84in.dnsmgr.net [69.59.192.140]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4M1kBx6sN6z3SHX for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2022 17:46:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id 278Hjrmw049948; Mon, 8 Aug 2022 10:45:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd-rwg@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id 278Hjrn2049947; Mon, 8 Aug 2022 10:45:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-rwg) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <202208081745.278Hjrn2049947@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Samsung Chromebook ARM "SNOW" model XE303C12 In-Reply-To: To: "M." Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2022 10:45:53 -0700 (PDT) CC: Mario Marietto , John F Carr , "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL121h (25)] List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arm List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4M1kBx6sN6z3SHX X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net has no SPF policy when checking 69.59.192.140) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.10 / 15.00]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.999]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.org]; ASN(0.00)[asn:13868, ipnet:69.59.192.0/19, country:US]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_DN_EQ_ADDR_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[no SPF record]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; FREEMAIL_CC(0.00)[gmail.com,mit.edu,FreeBSD.org]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dnsmgr.net]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N > 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 > napsal: > > > It seems more complicated than I thought. > > > > Il giorno dom 7 ago 2022 alle ore 19:46 John F Carr 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 > >> 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 > >> 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