Utility support for Chrome OS

[codyteam]

Would it be possible to make a port of the utility to Chromium OS?I already know that you can install linux on a chromebook but i cannot due to my school policy.Is there an open source edition of the utility so i could try to make it compatible to the chromebooks?

With all due respect,
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Cody

[__builtin]

The Rockbox Utility source code is available in the main git repository under rbutil/: https://git.rockbox.org/?p=rockbox.git;a=tree;f=rbutil;hb=HEAD

[bluebrother]

That's unlikely to happen for a couple of reasons.

Rockbox Utility​ is based on Qt, so first we need Qt in Chrome OS. As far as I know this doesn't exist. Then we use some C / C++ libraries that would need to run on Chrome OS as well. And last, we need direct hardware access (i.e. root permissions on Linux.) As far as I understand this isn't possible (and not wanted by) Chrome OS.

Especially since Rockbox Utility is mosty a one-shot tool I don't think there will be much interest in working on that, and it's not too much of a problem to get access to a Windows machine these days. But if someone wants to do that ... Rockbox is open source (so we don't need some"open source edition" thing )

[codyteam]

Well....You got a point but it could be possible in a later update


With all due respect,
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Cody