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

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 wiki page is obsolete.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.