On Ma, 01 sep 20, 18:27:40, Milan P. Stanić wrote: > On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 17:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 4:28 PM Matti Palmström <mattip.debian@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > > > Just saw a good price on an ASUS Chromebook C202XA that runs on a > > > Media Tek MT8173C. Does anyone know if it's possible to install > > > Debian to a chromebook like that? I'm googling as I write this but > > > I can't really find anything about it. I'm using Debian buster on an Acer Chromebook R13 with the kernel from archlinuxarm.org. https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/mediatek/acer-chromebook-r13 > > Normal user space should work as it does on any Arm platform. I assume > > this uses google's > > "Hana" mainboard design like Acer R13 and some Lenovo Chromes, which > > was only added > > with Linux-5.8 and presumably won't work in the standard Debian > > kernel. I think you can just > > use the original ChromeOS kernel though. > > I use oak-elm Acer R13 which is also mediatek MT8173 (though don't see > 'c' at the end) with Alpine linux userspace and kernel from > https://gitlab.collabora.com/eballetbo/linux/-/commits/topic/chromeos/somewhat-stable-next > made by Enric Balletbo i Serra (and some other developers). Are there any compilation / installation instructions for this? As per the installation instructions from archlinuxarm.org the installation appears to be quite finicky. > Enric told me that he use Acer R13 (elm-oak) with Debian userspace, so I > think/hope this board could also work. > > Some things doesn't still work, i.w. suspend-to-ram/resume, dmidecode, > sensors-detect and maybe something else which I didn't tried. I would be glad to get something newer than 3.18 working ;) > When I bought this chromebook (Acer R13) I installed Debian on it with > chromeos kernels and it worked fine but I switched to alpine for other > reasons. > > > The biggest problem is likely going to be the GPU, as there are no > > open source drivers for > > PowerVR. > > Yes, looks like there is no chances to get this working, though > mediatek-drm is quite usable for 'normal' work. Yep. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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