From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 18 23:06:54 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09A30BA0 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:06:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96EC4184B for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:06:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id sBIN6oZ1037188 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:06:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) with ESMTP id sBIN6oQT037185 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:06:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:06:50 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeBSD on Acer C710 Chromebook Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:06:51 -0700 (MST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:06:54 -0000 A C710 Chromebook is available to me. The last time someone asked (in 2013), there was no clear answer on whether this system could run FreeBSD. Anyone know more now? It has a Celeron 847, 2G of RAM (and two SODIMM sockets), and a normal SATA port. I'm aware that the firmware needs to be updated/modified to include SeaBIOS.