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Dell Latitude 5300 2-in-1 #233

Open crofh opened 4 years ago

crofh commented 4 years ago

Any chance of adding full support for this one in the near future?

Would it even be possible to somehow update the firmware/BIOS with this one?

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-ca/drivers/driversdetails?driverid=f91gn&oscode=wt64a&productcode=latitude-13-5300-2-in-1-laptop

It looks like they used the same hardware and just turned it into a Chromebook product, as the Windows version has been discontinued.

Pardon me if this is a stupid question.

Thank you.

MrChromebox commented 4 years ago

Any chance of adding full support for this one in the near future?

the 5300/5400 don't support flashing via CCD (Suzy-Q cable), and don't have a clippable chip (they use a WSON-8), so they'd be quite difficult to unbrick should something go wrong.

It looks like they used the same hardware and just turned it into a Chromebook product, as the Windows version has been discontinued.

no quite, you couldn't just flash firmware between the two, as there are actual hardware/board differences

I did just release legacy boot firmware for these devices with UEFI, so should allow you to run another OS

acastro60 commented 3 years ago

I appreciate the response. I was able to install Windows 10 on it in Legacy mode, but a bunch of drivers are missing or unknown. I tried downloading all the Windows 10 drivers for the 5300 2-in-1 non-chromebook, but only managed to install a couple before it started freezing up or hanging during the driver installation. There are also some unknown drivers related to the Chrome BIOS/Firmware. I was able to install ubuntu 20.04 LTS without issue so that's something at least. Thanks for all of your efforts.

MrChromebox commented 3 years ago

Windows doesn't have drivers for devices which are unique to Chromebooks, unless someone writes them -- that's just the way it is. Stock Google firmware also isn't tested for Windows compatibility, and often has issues, so not surprising you ran into problems.

dragon788 commented 3 years ago

I think the biggest challenge related to running Windows on a Chromebook (and these in particular) is the amount of functionality that gets tied to the EC which isn't a common pattern in Windows, so there aren't drivers to manage power/lid/etc events properly so if they send an interrupt Windows freaks out.

I'm extremely grateful that MrChromebox was able to get a working RW_Legacy, even if ChromeOS updates appear to wipe out the firmware requiring a reinstall, it doesn't take long and I go back and forth between ChromeOS and Linux enough that I don't forget the fix when the Ctrl+L or numeric shortcut doesn't work.