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Cadmium v0.4.0

20 Nov 20:57
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Well it's been a while.

This release has been tested and is known to work on following devices with following flavors:

  • Acer Spin 513
  • Lenovo Chromebook Duet

MT8173 devices are known to not work
Snapdragon X Elite support is still in the works, and can be tested by building x1elite flavor.
Libreboot and U-boot devices are supported by arm64-efi flavor, which is currently experimental.

Please donate to my patreon, it's what makes Cadmium possible!
If you want to donate a device, here's what I'm looking for:

  • A Chromebook with a Mediatek Kompanio 1380/1200 SoC
  • A Chromebook with a Mediatek Kompanio 828/820 SoC
  • A Chromebook with a Mediatek Kompanio 838 SoC
  • A Chromebook with a Mediatek Kompanio 520 SoC
  • Any currently unsupported in Cadmium Windows-on-Arm laptop

Cadmium v0.4.0-pre2 "c a d m i u m"

20 Mar 15:12
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This release has been made possible by donations on Patreon(https://www.patreon.com/macc24) and PayPal(https://paypal.me/maccraft123).
Changes from v0.3.0:

  • Added another kukui krane SKU
  • Re-wrote entire rootfs code
  • Re-Added VoidLinux rootfs
  • Re-wrote UI code
  • Made Cadmium images device-agnostic
  • Re-wrote eMMC installation

To install:

  • Download image for your chromebook's architecture with rootfs of choosing
  • Decompress it
  • Flash to a pendrive
  • Log in as 'root' with no password
  • Run ./install

Known issues:

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c-based machines have flaky WiFi support
  • Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c-based machines sometimes fail to detect pendrives after running kernel, you just have to give 'em a minute or two

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0-pre2

Cadmium v0.4.0-pre1 "I updated kernel for one machine and call it a release"

14 Jul 20:20
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This release has been made possible by donations on Patreon(https://www.patreon.com/macc24) and PayPal(https://paypal.me/maccraft123).

THIS IS A TESTING RELEASE NOT FOR DAILY USE

Changes:

  • duet now runs 5.14 kernel
  • duet now has suspend/resume working
  • duet now has gpu reclocking working
  • duet now has sound working

For devices that aren't duet download images from:
https://github.com/Maccraft123/Cadmium/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Just grab correct cadmium-device.img.gz and sha1 sum for your device and flash it to a pendrive or sd card,
boot from it, log in as root and install to emmc with:
./install-to-emmc or install to current medium with ./install-to-here

Cadmium v0.3.0 "big changes"

11 Jun 21:17
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This release has been made possible by donations on Patreon(https://www.patreon.com/macc24) and PayPal(https://paypal.me/maccraft123).

Changes:

  • Too long to list

Supported devices:

  • Samsung Chromebook Plus V1 (kevin)
  • Lenovo Chromebook Duet (duet)
  • Asus C100PA (minnie)
  • Asus C201PA (speedy)
  • Asus C101PA (bob)
    Note: Acer Spin 513 support is missing due to build issues.
    Note 2: Samsung Chromebook Plus V1 has issues with shutting down

Just grab correct cadmium-device.img.gz and sha1 sum for your device and flash it to a pendrive or sd card,
boot from it, log in as root and install to emmc with:
./install-to-emmc or install to current medium with ./install-to-here

Nothing to see here, carry on, just a kernel update

06 Mar 15:25
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0.2.1-2

move hardware support section higher

Cadmium v0.2.1 "And that's why you test releases"

05 Mar 12:01
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Changes:

  • Fixed eMMC installation script

Just grab correct cadmium-device.img.gz and sha1 sum for your device.
Don't worry about kernel-*, they are only for kernel updates

You can support Cadmium at my Patreon page, or by donating via PayPal

Cadmium v0.2.0 "Yeah it took a bit longer than few days"

04 Mar 18:40
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Changes:

  • Bumped duet kernel to 5.10.19 (Thanks @hexdump0815)
  • Bumped kevin kernel to 5.11
  • Added somewhat working Anbox support for both kevin and duet
  • Added sway UI option
  • Switched to F2FS from Ext4
  • Improved eMMC installation script
  • And more!

To install just download cadmium-<device>.img.gz, corresponding checksum and write it to a pendrive
kernel-* files are for future use in kernel updating

You can support Cadmium at my Patreon page, or by donating via PayPal

Cadmium v0.1.0 "Now i'm done with messing with partitions"

04 Jan 21:52
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Differences from previous release:

  • 5.10.3 kernel
  • Overhauled eMMC installation script
  • Safe kernel updates(Coming Soon™)
    And more!

I guess it can be released now

11 Dec 18:03
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Pre-release

The image file is for 2GB memory devices and has just enough Debian to install Cadmium to internal eMMC