Mainline Linux-libre for Chromebook pixel 2013?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov 28, 2015, Iru Cai <mytbk920423 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I bought a Chromebook pixel 2013 recently. When it runs Trisquel with
> Linux-libre 3.13, the touchscreen and touchpad work fine. However, in later
> kernel release, it needs to load non-free firmware in mxt_initialize(),
> which is in drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c, and the atmel_mxt_ts
> driver fails to work. Is there a work around for this?

I suspect blacklisting the specific driver might get the device to
fallback to generic emulation mode, which is presumably what you were
get on 3.13 (assuming there isn't a specific driver there).

Please let me know how it goes, so that I can have a further look and
maybe fix the problem for good.  If the device works well without the
specific driver, it would probably be ideal to disable the driver for
good.

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