On 05/01/2020 23:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
I'd be interested to test this on the Acer Chromebook R13 (elm).
Where / how do I start?
From what I can find on the internet: it doesn't look like mainline
Linux works on elm yet and Debian arm64 kernel doesn't even have
CONFIG_ARCH_MEDIATEK (and probably more CONFIGs that would be necessary
for elm) enabled. You'd need to get the Debian-built kernel to run on
your hardware first.
So I'm assuming you're running a custom kernel. I guess you could build
an installer image with that but it would be an alternative to these
changes, i.e. would not test them :) . I don't know how exactly that
experiment would go. See d-i [1] for how to build installer images in
general.
Anyway, your roadmap to getting Debian and Debian installer running
would be roughly:
- Get mainline Linux working on elm
- Enable necessary CONFIGs in the Debian Linux source package
- Make sure initramfs-tools includes essential modules for booting elm
- Add those modules to udeb packaging lists in Linux source package
- (Do a lot of chromebook-specific work that I'm also doing)
Thanks for the offer. Unfortunately I can't help with the mainlining
part. But if you or anyone else gets past that I could give pointers
about the rest.
[1] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/d-i/
