[Chromebooks] opieum:
UPDATE: See second post for initial downloads of AOSP, CM , Arndale and Linaro/Arndale builds. These are very much a work in progress and may not even work. I am putting them forth for testing for the dev community to try out on their chromebooks.

These builds will be based on the latest JB builds. There is still alot of work to be done here. The AOSP builds initially have been put up. The other builds will go up as they are completed. I am working on the documentation for putting this together as a repeatable process is doable. In time there will be an installer and other goodies, but for now this will just be a very vanilla and manual process.

My goal is to get a working port of JB on the Samsung Chromebook. There has been no significant work on this front AFAIK. So I am taking it on myself to learn and try this out. Any community input would be helpful in making this work. I am fairly n00b at this but am looking to make this work.

I found some promising information. I might be able to build this using the binaries from arndaleboard which appears to mostly use the same hardware.

FYI for anyone experimenting to make this work please note that the following MUST be done for any chance of these root files to boot from SD.

SD/MMC boot

vold.fstab

* Change the sdcard0 and sdcard1 lines so that the first line is sdcard1 and the second is sdcard0.

fstab.arndale

* Change all references to mmcblk0px to mmcblk1px.

init.arndale.rc

* Change the 2 references to mmcblk0px to mmcblk1px.

mountd.conf

* Change the reference to mmcblk0 to mmcblk1

http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

http://forum.insignal.co.kr/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=62

http://forum.insignal.co.kr/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=63

Now that the rootfs part is addressed I am tackling the booting issues. Current uboot methods focus mainly on linux distro booting. Android appears to require its own ramdisk (which is in the links below) there will be some extra downloads such as a working uboot.

Once there are working versions of all the needed components working. An installer or installer script will be put together along with documentation. I may release this to a separate thread which I will post here.

Additional info on flashing the actual arndale. http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/ind...Flash_a_Device

Arndale is the base hardware also used on a Samsung series 3 Chromebook. Most if not all the components will work.

Additionally MANTA aka nexus 10 hardware is similarly identical and can be used with some success. I am working on compiling base builds based on CM10, AOSP, Linaro and Arndale's git.

Some more info on the bootloader

http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/...arm-chromebook

Im using this post to keep notes on what I find and build. I might edit some more to update as I find stuff. I will create a separate post if I have any success. I got two of these. I can live with bricking one if it happens. And I imagine there is a way to restore the system if needed. I figure I will figure that part out first. To avoid any mishaps and have a brick.

CREDITS: Musical_chairs for his invaluable input and resources he has linked in this post. I will update credits for other contributors once I get through the whole thread and credit all those obviously who build the original code these builds will be based on.