Re: Re: Fwd: On a Samsung ARM Chromebook, could nv-uboot easily boot to stock linux kernels, by way of ARM-GRUB?
2014-01-10 Held Bier <lausgans@gmail.com>:
> Marcin,
>
>> One can, but Samsung ARM Chromebook is not fully supported by mainline
>> kernel. At least you'll miss wi-fi.
> Wi-Fi, USB3, Audio and some other stuff probably too. But you get
> working virtualisation with proper U-Boot.
Good news meanwhile. Virtual Open Systems moved their KVM on ARM
Chromebook project to the 3.13 kernel and brought wi-fi support. Now it's
usable without plugging of USB ethernet dongle :-)
http://www.virtical.eu/index.php/news/28-golden-guide-kvm-arm.html
>
>> Did someone got it working?
>
> Never heard of. Though the kernel corretly activates it when the fw
> is put at the same path as in Chrome OS.
>
>> There are nv-u-boot images which boot Linux kernel with separate DTB.
>
> Right. Unfortunately, Google's one seem to require combined images.
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