Judging by a commit message BSD on the ARM Chromebook didn't work when support was removed in 2019.
>RK* Exynos* and Meson*/Odroid* don't even work with current >source code, if someone wants to make them work again they >better use the Linux DTS. https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit?id=9dfa2a54684978d1d6cef67bbf6242e825801f18 I have one of the "snow" Chromebooks. The warnings in the web page https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Chromebook led me not to try FreeBSD. None of the many bugs seemed likely to ever be fixed. I'm not using it so I could try an experiment, but fighting with u-boot is not how I want to spend my days. Even the popular Raspberry Pi takes skill or luck. (So "build an arm6 world and copy X, Y, and Z to the DOS partition on your USB drive" is the kind of advice I need to supplement the old Chromebook wiki page.) There is at least a little value in getting it to work because the armv6 code is bit rotting and will go away entirely unless people use it. John Carr > On Jan 15, 2024, at 10:59, Mario Marietto <marietto2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello to everyone. > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 14 natively on my ARM Chromebook model xe303c12 > ; I've found only one tutorial that teaches how to do that,that's it : > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Chromebook > > The problem is that it ends with the installation of FreeBSD 11,that's very > EOL. > I can't use it as is. I need to upgrade it to 14 (but I'm on arm 32 > bit,that's TIER-2,so I can't upgrade it automatically using the > freebsd-update script. It is also true that I can't install 14 directly on > that machine,as you can read below : > > > <unnamed.png> > > I've looked all around and I found the tool pkgbase,that I'm talking about on > the FreeBSD forum,to understand if it allows the 11 to be usable or > upgradable. It does not seem to be the proper tool to achieve my goal. Do you > have any suggestions that can help me ? Thanks. > > -- > Mario.
