Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiya...@gmail.com> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
* Package name : depthcharge-tools Version : 0.3.0 Upstream Author : Alper Nebi Yasak <alpernebiya...@gmail.com> * URL : http://github.com/alpernebbi/depthcharge-tools * License : GPL-2.0+ Programming Lang: sh Description : Tools to manage the Chrome OS bootloader This project is a collection of tools that ease and automate interacting with depthcharge, the ChromeOS bootloader. Depthcharge is built into the firmware of ChromeOS machines, uses a custom verified boot flow and usually cannot boot other operating systems as is. This means someone who wants to use e.g. Debian on these machines need to either replace the firmware or work their system into the format depthcharge expects. These tools are about the latter. This is the main part of my attempt to get Debian and Debian installer to work on ChromeOS devices with stock firmware. What I'm aiming for is a fully automated solution that makes installing and using Debian on these systems as easy as doing so on ordinary x86 laptops. Right now it only supports the one arm64 chromebook I own, but I hope this project can evolve to be the go-to solution for running Linux on these devices in the future. For most x86 models people usually flash third-party firmware, but such an option is not readily available for ARM ones. Other than that, users have to jump through a lot of hoops just to get a bootable system, and still have to do device-specific work on every kernel/initramfs change. Although not included in that specific repo, I've also implemented a Debian installer step and Debian-specific integration to fully automate ChromeOS bootloader management from the installed system. These are available on salsa [0]. I have been using my system with these over the course of multiple kernel upgrades already. It's similar to flash-kernel in its purpose, so I'm OK with maintaining this under the installer team (though I don't want to cause them too much work, so I'm also OK with maintaining it myself). I need a sponsor and will file an RFS soon. [0] https://salsa.debian.org/alpernebbi-guest/depthcharge-tools