On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 13:14:23 +0200 Andreas Grapentin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree that the news post in question (I believe you are referring to > this: > https://www.parabola.nu/news/parabola-officially-supports-librebooted-asus-chromebook-c201/) > is misleading in that regard, and should probably rewritten to be > more clear. What about the following: > Parabola is looking for testers for the librebooted Asus Chromebook > C201 > > Parabola can now boot on the Asus Chromebook C201 with the Linux-libre > kernel, but some testing is still needed find out which hardware > components works well, and for the ones that don't to help by testing > fixes and workarounds. > > For instance there is a bugreport (#2261) about USB WiFi adapters not > working properly, and we still need to find out how to fix that if > it's due to hardware limitations that would be impossible to fix with > software. If this bug is not fixed, people will not be able to use the > WiFi with free software as the internal WiFi chip is unable to > function without nonfree software. > > At the time of writing, None of the Parabola developers that are > working on this have an Asus Chromebook C201. > In the past, the furthest thing that was achieved was to boot > Parabola with the non-free CrOS kernel. > However, that changed when a Parabola user reported at issue #1965 to > successfully boot our beloved distro in this Librebooted ARM laptop. > > People that wish to help by testing the Asus Chromebook C201, just > have to install the linux-libre-chromebook package, which has the > signature to boot Linux-libre with Depthcharge in the C201. Denis.
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