Re: Debian Installer support for Chromebooks

[Alper Nebi Yasak]

On 04/12/2022 14:49, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Since the packages contain translatable material, my 2 cents here:
> I would propose to *not* add the new packages to the l10n machinery
> before the release of bookworm, given were are late in the development
> cycle. 
> Means, the new packages would be english-only (at least for the initial
> release of bookworm).
> I guess that's ok by you?

That's definitely OK. I don't know the actual distribution, but my best
guess is the vast majority of users would be in English-speaking countries.

Re: Debian Installer support for Chromebooks

[Alper Nebi Yasak]

On 04/12/2022 00:08, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Alper Nebi Yasak  (2022-12-03):
>> I'd like these two udebs to be sponsored. [...]
> 
> I don't think that's going to be an issue timing-wise. To be fair, if they
> aren't perfect yet by the time the release happens, we could always fix
> stuff in unstable and backport a few things to stable.
> 
> The only thing I'll probably want to make extra sure of is that
> introducing those packages doesn't have any nasty side effects for other
> machines.

I'll try to test UEFI installations with my custom images on actual
hardware this week. Saw no problems on a QEMU VM so far.

>> [...]
> 
> All of this is very interesting, I'm not sure where it would be best to
> keep all relevant documentation. Maybe some dedicated wiki page?

I want to eventually write an InstallingDebianOn/Chromebooks page, but
have been delaying that because my aim is to make it conceptually as
small as "Enable 'Developer Mode', write this image to a USB disk, press
CTRL + U to boot from it, follow the installer". Maybe as an appendix to
that, or something like DebianInstaller/Chromebooks? I don't know.