On Tue, 2020-09-01 at 17:32, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 4:28 PM Matti Palmström <mattip.deb...@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. > > 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).
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. 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. > Arnd >
