Re: Exynos?

[Warner Losh <imp%bsdimp.com@localhost>]

On Apr 7, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Ottavio Caruso 
<ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:

> On 7 April 2014 15:02, Joachim Thiemann 
> <joachim.thiemann%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>> not sure I grok the full boot sequence of the arch sd card quite yet
>> (esp. regarding the u-boot script) but I do know there is a partition
>> formatted as ext2 with only one file (vmlinux.uimg) that (AFAIK) comes
>> straight from the arch repositories.  My naive hope is that I could
>> just plop a u-bootable netbsd kernel in there.
> 
> That reminds me I joined this mailing list just about after buying the
> Chromebook in October 2012 (I was one of the first to buy it from
> Amazon UK. I sent it back a couple of weeks later, silly me!) because
> I started to get frustrated with Linux on ARM and I was looking for an
> alternative OS.

FreeBSD/arm boots on the Samsung Chrombook these days. Don’t know the
status of all the device support and such, but I don’t think it has been a 
horrible
effort.

Warner