On 2019-03-17, Timothy Sample wrote:
> Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> writes:
>> With libreboot re-installed, it's working for me as well!
>
> Hooray!
>
>> I haven't tried just applying the minimal patches and/or configuration
>> on top of Guix's linux-libre, but that seems like a logical next step...
>
> One thing worth trying might be to turn off the patches in PrawnOS
> kernel, to see if they make a difference for booting.  I think it is
> mostly the configuration that is making the difference.

So, I threw away the patches and added a config only slightly updated
from the prawnos config.... and it boots linux-libre 5.0! It's even
proven stable enough to recompile the kernel on the c201 itself...

Working for me:

  keyboard
  framebuffer console
  usb
  cpufreq
  battery status
  backlight

There's a FIXME for properly fetching the veyron kernel configuration,
but otherwise it's looking almost like something worth formally
submitting... ?

Even more ideal would be figuring out how to use the regular linux-libre
package; it might be as simple as just documenting additional modules
needed in the initramfs and enabling a few configuration options/modules
in the kernel config.

To properly make use of it also depends on the depthcharge "bootloader"
patches, and the example asus-c201.cfg.tmpl.


live well,
  vagrant