On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:42 PM, William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> wrote:
On 01/21/2013 01:41 PM, Jon wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@gmail.com <mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I thought you were going to have a hack fest on it @ FUDCon, did that
>     not happen?
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> We did have some hacking going on, Will Cohen and I spent most of our time on the chromebooks.
> I'll try to publish a report soon =)

A vboot-utils rpm is need to install a kernel or uboot for the samsung chromebook.  Having an official vboot-utils in Fedora will be really helpful and allow fedora to roll its own chromebook kernels. I suspect that this will also be need for x86 based chrome books.

The vboot upstream code is in flux, so some versions of the git tree didn't build. We spent some time trying to track down the specific problem. Jon, did you narrow down which checkin in the git tree was causing the problems with the builds?

Jon, feel free to post work-in-progress and ask questions so any probems are resolved quickly. I would really like to get rid of the hacky vboot-utils that I am currently using.

-Will


I believe I've narrowed down the issues with vboot_reference and will be moving forward with an official RPM for the Fedora project.
This is my first RPM for the project, so expect some minor delay as the package is poked by the packaging team.

In the near future I'm hoping to put together an updated set of instruction on the Fedora ARM Wiki for Chromebook.
After that maybe generating a remix image to make the process even easier.




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-Jon