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Bug#740042: linux: The module chromeos_laptop is not enabled in kernel 3.13, needed to enable touchpad on chromebooks



On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 22:45 -0800, David Shao wrote:
> As a workaround, I copied /boot/config-3.13-1-amd64 to
> /boot/config-3.13-1-amd64-chrome and added the line
> 
> CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS=y
> 
> Then at the point in the modified cros-haswell-modules.sh for Debian
> where it notices config has changed,
> I answered "m".  (Should I have set CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS to m in
> the first place?)

CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS only enables or disables the following config
symbols; it doesn't directly enable code so the module/built-in
distinction doesn't exist.

> I modified cros-haswell-modules.sh for 3.13 following the directions from:
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Acer_C720_Chromebook

Oh, so further source changes are needed to support it properly?

> and pulling in the modified /boot/config-3.13-1-amd64-chrome for the config.
> 
> Note that the module is built and installed in a new directory
> platform/chrome not platform/x86.

That doesn't matter when building a package.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                           - Albert Einstein

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