On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Mark Waid <fleabass4@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello! I live in Albuquerque and just found your group on the internet. I would love to come and attend and see what its all about. Do I just show up with my computer?
Yep, we're very informal and all are welcome! On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 10:29:55AM -0600, casey dentinger wrote:
I have an ASUS C201 Chromebook with a Rockchip 3288 SoC. Google left the keys in the bootloader so I have installed libreboot.
Ooh cool. There's a fair amount of discussion WRT to the future of fully liberated hardware possibly being non-x86 stuff. If you've seen the EOMA68 stuff: https://nmglug.org/libre-tea-computer-card-show-your-support/ It's worth noting that the _next_ EOMA68 card in the works (after the A20 from the current crowdfunding) is also a rockchip 3288 SoC. So I've been pretty tempted to pick one of those C201s.
Now I want to run sway, a port of the i3 window manager for Wayland.
Tiling FTW. I've yet to see Wayland doing anything more exciting than breaking, so this will be fun too!
I actually had it sort of working in arch but the opengl enabled graphics driver (veyron_libgl) causes wlc to segfault. Without that driver the video was too choppy to be enjoyable.
I think I've seen mention that there are still no free video drivers for the MALI gpu on this thing. LIMA seems to have stalled permanently with a fair amount of bad blood between the dev and ARM.
I would like to try updating the kernel from the ancient 3.14, but I bet I'm going to have trouble without whatever Chromebook specific stuff it has.
Yeah this would be cool to see. You need the linux-sunxi kernel right? Or are you thinking a kernel.org or linux-libre kernel has enough upstreamed to get it working?
Also there is clearly a working video driver on the ChromeOs install, but I don't know how to make arch use it. Either way the whole install is on a 2G microsd card so if I'm going to build a kernel I'll need to upgrade.
And this is why non-free software is (also;) pragmatically sucky.