Speaking of ARM... Trisquel on Chromebook?

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MagicFab
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Knowing that Google recently launched another Chromebook based on
Gentoo, and the interest I've seen here in having Trisquel
ported/running on ARM, I was wondering if anyone on this list has
acquired this hardware and may have installed Debian on it?

http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/

I am wondering if the hardware is freedom-friendly and would like to
invite discussion around this subject, much like was recently discussed
about the Raspberry Pi.

What's the status of Trisquel on ARM, following that thread? If someone
could summarize that I'd be grateful, I couldn't follow it all.

Cheers,

Fabian

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miga
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My guess is that it'll require non-free firmware for wi-fi/bluetooth (if present), and non-free drivers for the GPU.

So, it might work, but there will be a lot of functionality missing. Again, just a guess.

abualijawad
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HI . HOW TO MAKE TRISQUEL WORKS ON EFIKA SMARTBOOK...

aliasbody
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Joined: 09/14/2012

HI! IT IS ACTUALLY HARD SINCE.... okay now it is better :D As I was saying, It is actually hard since there is no linux-libre kernel for ARM Device, this need to be created, but no one will create one on an ARM machine that needs non-free drivers of firmwares in order to work.

So, if you have time and skills, you can find a Ubuntu version working on that machine and after that just try to compile a libre kernel for ARM (hard work indeed !).

So to simplify that. If you don't know how to do it, and the device needs non-free software to work, then you are out of luck (this is why I don't buy a Raspberry Pi yet, even if I can do the work of porting Trisquel to it, it won't serve much because even I won't use it xD).

abualijawad
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thank you.