FreeBSD on Acer C710 Chromebook

[Adrian Chadd]

cool.

well, Matthew Dillon / DragonflyBSD project just bought me a C720, so
I'll be able to shephard in the patches into -HEAD soon.

For the C710, I'd like to figure out how to build a chromeos recovery
and boot image that uses the normal way of doing it - however, and
here's the kicker - we don't have EFI32 booting support yet. So, until
we get that working, we'll be stuck. :(



-adrian


On 27 December 2014 at 11:11, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de> wrote:
> El día Saturday, December 27, 2014 a las 11:52:16AM -0700, Warren Block escribió:
>
>> The C710's advantage is that RAM can be added and it takes a normal 2.5
>> SATA device (7mm, but still).
>>
>> The C720 has a faster processor, but RAM (2G) is soldered in, there are
>> no sockets, and the SSD is the newer M.2 form factor.  It already has
>> SeaBIOS, though.
>
> Re/ C720: There are detailed information and patches how to install
> HEAD on a C720;
>
> I found a video in Youtube about updating the SSD to 128 GByte and
> checked the price of such SSD (around 100 Euro). The video as well shows
> the RAM soldered as 4 chips. But, I think for the purpose (netbook)
> 2 Gbyte is pretty much enough:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jOHHyJMgWk
>
> I'm still thinking about buying the C720 ... There are offers for 200 Euro.
> It could really be a replacement for my nearly 8 years old EeePC 900.
>
>         matthias
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