From 79f22a60effd4353e69b385464658a61adc3b9b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Kaduk Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 05:12:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add report on Acer C720 support from Michael Gmelin --- .../news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml | 51 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml index 6d1113cda2..871019e6aa 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.xml @@ -229,4 +229,55 @@ + + FreeBSD on the Acer C720 Chromebook + + + + + Michael + Gmelin + + freebsd@grem.de + + + + + Blog post on + how to get things working + Blog + post with links to commits in CURRENT + Backported + patch for 10.2-RELEASE + + + +

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.

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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).

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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.

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For those who are unable to run CURRENT, there is a + backported patch to 10.2-RELEASE.

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Thanks to everyone who helped in the process, I couldn't + have done it without you (you know who you are). +

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