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


ne 7. 8. 2022 v 20:44 odesílatel 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 The wiki page is obsolete.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.
>