Could I get Chrome OS working on my Raspberry Pi without having to compile anything?
I've heard somebody has compiled it for the Raspberry Pi, so I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in doing this.
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I've heard somebody has compiled it for the Raspberry Pi, so I was wondering if anyone has had any experience in doing this.
Hexxeh has been working on a build for the Raspberry Pi, as outlined in this blog post. The main issue with it is that it is really, really, slow. This is because there is no graphical acceleration.
It is recommended that you have the following things before attempting to build Chromium OS.
Now you need to get the actual Chromium OS code. You can find out how to do this at the Chromium OS Developer Guide.
Next you need to add the Raspberry Pi overlay to the source code. Find the directory named overlays
in the src
folder of the Chromium OS source code. Copy the overlay found in the Hexxeh/overlay-raspberrypi Github repro.
First you must be inside the Chromium OS chroot. Refer to sectoin 4.2 of the developer guide if you are not sure how to do this. Second you need to be root to build the toolchain. This can be achieved via su
or sudo -i
. Then run the following command.
$ USE="-thumb -hardened hardfp" FEATURES="splitdebug" crossdev -S -t armv6j-cros-linux-gnueabi --ex-gdb
Now we can quit root via exit
.
You only need to run this command once.
$ ./setup_board --board=raspberrypi
You'll also want to leave a backdoor for a development image to let yourself into the shell. You can do that via the following command.
$ ./set_shared_user_password
At the prompt enter the password and press enter. Tada.
First we need to make sure that we have all the required packages. We can get build these via.
$ ./build_packages --board=raspberrypi --withdev --nowithdebug --nousepkg --nowithautotest
Finally! You can build a USB image via.
$ ./build_image dev --board=raspberrypi --noenable_rootfs_verification
Have a look at http://hexxeh.net/. He has been working on a build. There are some BETA files you can download and compile but no full image has been released to date.