os/doc
3
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Add report on Acer C720 support from Michael Gmelin

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Benjamin Kaduk 2015-10-14 05:12:23 +00:00
parent e8724dcd58
commit 79f22a60ef
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=47554
1 changed files with 51 additions and 0 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

51
en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml
View file

@ -229,4 +229,55 @@
</sponsor>
</project>
<project cat='proj'>
<title>FreeBSD on the Acer C720 Chromebook</title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Michael</given>
<common>Gmelin</common>
</name>
<email>freebsd@grem.de</email>
</person>
</contact>
<links>
<url href="http://blog.grem.de/pages/c720.html">Blog post on
how to get things working</url>
<url href="http://blog.grem.de/sysadmin/FreeBSD-On-AcerC720-Merged-2015-07-25-23-30.html">Blog
post with links to commits in CURRENT</url>
<url href="http://blog.grem.de/sysadmin/FreeBSD-10.2-On-AcerC720-2015-09-19-17-00.html">Backported
patch for 10.2-RELEASE</url>
</links>
<body>
<p>The Acer C720 Chromebook is an affordable (under $200) and
powerful little laptop, that provides a battery life of up to six
hours running FreeBSD. It is a great machine for travelling and
coding in general. The machine is fully functional, meaning that
all essential devices work: Keyboard, trackpad, light sensor,
backlight control, display in VESA mode (fast), external Display
on HDMI (only VESA mirror mode), sound, USB ports, SD card slot,
camera and Atheros Wireless.</p>
<p>This quarter, this project extended previous work on the
boot process and keyboard driver as well as the smbus(4) driver.
It added three new drivers: ig4(4), cyapa(4) and isl(4).</p>
<p>Much of the development was originally done in late 2014;
since then, the patches have been massively improved and merged
into CURRENT, so that all relevant devices work without manual
patching.</p>
<p>For those who are unable to run CURRENT, there is a
backported patch to 10.2-RELEASE.</p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who helped in the process, I couldn't
have done it without you (you know who you are).
</p>
</body>
</project>
</report>