Dobrica Pavlinušić's random unstructured stuff
Chromebook: Revision 10
* https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/samsung-arm-chromebook

I have two chromebooks, one is working and one is bricked

^ Samsung ARM Chromebook (working)

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localhost ~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc0f
CPU revision : 4

processor : 1
model name : ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
BogoMIPS : 48.00
Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 tls vfpv4 idiva idivt
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 7
CPU variant : 0x0
CPU part : 0xc0f
CPU revision : 4

Hardware : SAMSUNG EXYNOS5 (Flattened Device Tree)
Revision : 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000


localhost ~ # flashrom --flash-name
flashrom v0.9.4 : 244249c : Dec 09 2016 03:49:59 UTC on Linux 3.8.11 (armv7l)
flashrom v0.9.4 : 244249c : Dec 09 2016 03:49:59 UTC on Linux 3.8.11 (armv7l)
vendor="Winbond" name="W25Q32DW"

localhost ~ # flashrom --get-size
flashrom v0.9.4 : 244249c : Dec 09 2016 03:49:59 UTC on Linux 3.8.11 (armv7l)
flashrom v0.9.4 : 244249c : Dec 09 2016 03:49:59 UTC on Linux 3.8.11 (armv7l)
4194304

localhost ~ # flashrom --wp-status
flashrom v0.9.4 : 244249c : Dec 09 2016 03:49:59 UTC on Linux 3.8.11 (armv7l)
flashrom v0.9.4 : 244249c : Dec 09 2016 03:49:59 UTC on Linux 3.8.11 (armv7l)
WP: status: 0x00b8
WP: status.srp0: 1
WP: status.srp1: 0
WP: write protect is enabled.
WP: write protect range: start=0x00000000, len=0x00200000

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^ bricked, recovery doesn't help

This chromebook reports that it wants to do recovery, but inserting (few different) usb sticks generated using http://www.google.com/chromeos/recovery instructions doesn't help

https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chromeos/recovery/linux_recovery.sh

^ arch

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samsung_Chromebook_(ARM)

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setenv bootargs root=/dev/mmcblk1p2 rootfstype=jfs rootwait rw
mmc dev 1
ext2load mmc 1:1 42000000 vmlinux.uimg
bootm 42000000
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^ custom firmware

* https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware
* http://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/lss2013_slides/safford_chromebook_takeown.pdf
* https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/firmware-porting-guide/using-nv-u-boot-on-the-samsung-arm-chromebook

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dpavlin@nuc:/nuc/books/Chromebook$ wget http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/nv_uboot-snow.kpart.bz2
--2017-01-19 19:05:28-- http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromeos-localmirror/distfiles/nv_uboot-snow.kpart.bz2
Resolving commondatastorage.googleapis.com (commondatastorage.googleapis.com)... 216.58.206.16, 2a00:1450:4001:820::2010
Connecting to commondatastorage.googleapis.com (commondatastorage.googleapis.com)|216.58.206.16|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 281844 (275K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘nv_uboot-snow.kpart.bz2’

nv_uboot-snow.kpart.bz2 100%[================================================>] 275.24K 1.37MB/s in 0.2s

2017-01-19 19:05:28 (1.37 MB/s) - ‘nv_uboot-snow.kpart.bz2’ saved [281844/281844]

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* https://blogs.s-osg.org/use-mainline-u-boot-non-signed-kernels-exynos-chromebooks/