[coreboot] Building ChromeOS from source

Gregg Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 27 05:28:02 CET 2016


Hello!
As with everything else concerning a (presumably) open source project,
I'm considering it. Still looking for a reasonably good reason. I
believe given that interesting problem, I believe I might take a wack
at it.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:11 PM, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
> Do you want to build Chrome from source to?
>
> I have  google doc that explains how building chromeos from source used to
> work. Chromeos is quite a monster to build, and my google doc is out of date
> (something changed), but it's possible to build a lot from source. Just have
> a reasonably powerful CPU handy.
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WQnfloMbcR798Lk-iYPbvZt-wplW83IYyCf7SYyXTvs/edit?usp=sharing
>
> One of the side goals of my u-root project is to create a root file system
> that is small and simple and might replace chromeos someday. In u-root,
> programs are dynamically compiled when you run them, so the root is mostly
> source.
>
> ron
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 6:52 PM Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>> Let us suppose I want to build from source ChromeOS. What is involved
>> in doing that? And the reason some of you will ask, it concerns the
>> previous discussion on building a ROM image for a particular Intel
>> chipset.
>>
>> If possible I might be able to obtain a board that's reasonably close
>> to that chipset.
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>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
>> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>>
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