Re: FreeBSD on Samsung Chromebook ARM "SNOW" model XE303C12

> 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 <[email protected]>
> napsal:
> 
> > It seems more complicated than I thought.
> >
> > Il giorno dom 7 ago 2022 alle ore 19:46 John F Carr <[email protected]> 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 The wiki page is obsolete.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 <[email protected]>
> >> 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 <[email protected]>
> >> 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.
> >

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