Hello everyone,
I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One "cloudbook" that has a 64gb Hynix eMMC part as it's internal disk. My goal is to make this a lightweight FreeBSD-only machine for travel and daily mobile computing. When trying an install of 10.1-RELEASE the eMMC device was not found and therefore the install could not proceed. Some Internet and FreeBSD forum searching turned up a few posts from folks who have similar devices (HP Stream) and had the same outcome.
If eMMC install/booting is indeed unsupported at this time does anyone know if it is currently on the road-map? If so, is anyone currently working on this feature?
If the feature is not currently being worked on I would like to start developing a solution based on the eMMC 5.1 spec. Probably an eMMC driver providing the signal layer interactions with the eMMC part that hopefully can leverage an existing file system block-level driver already in the FreeBSD kernel. The goal would be to have FreeBSD install on an eMMC like it would on any other (S)ATA/IDE drive.
However I certainly do not want to duplicate anyone else's efforts. There is probably a way to check what features are already being worked on but I have not found it yet. My apologies to the moderators if there is.
Any feedback or advice pertaining to this feature, the development of it, who might be working on it already, any "gotchas" to look out for, etc. would be much appreciated!
I recently purchased an Acer Aspire One "cloudbook" that has a 64gb Hynix eMMC part as it's internal disk. My goal is to make this a lightweight FreeBSD-only machine for travel and daily mobile computing. When trying an install of 10.1-RELEASE the eMMC device was not found and therefore the install could not proceed. Some Internet and FreeBSD forum searching turned up a few posts from folks who have similar devices (HP Stream) and had the same outcome.
If eMMC install/booting is indeed unsupported at this time does anyone know if it is currently on the road-map? If so, is anyone currently working on this feature?
If the feature is not currently being worked on I would like to start developing a solution based on the eMMC 5.1 spec. Probably an eMMC driver providing the signal layer interactions with the eMMC part that hopefully can leverage an existing file system block-level driver already in the FreeBSD kernel. The goal would be to have FreeBSD install on an eMMC like it would on any other (S)ATA/IDE drive.
However I certainly do not want to duplicate anyone else's efforts. There is probably a way to check what features are already being worked on but I have not found it yet. My apologies to the moderators if there is.
Any feedback or advice pertaining to this feature, the development of it, who might be working on it already, any "gotchas" to look out for, etc. would be much appreciated!