Comment by jakebasile
1 month ago
I wonder if they'll drop support for ChromeOS Flex, their install-it-on-whatever version. Would be kind of interesting to have a semi-official Android for various x86 machines I have lying around.
1 month ago
I wonder if they'll drop support for ChromeOS Flex, their install-it-on-whatever version. Would be kind of interesting to have a semi-official Android for various x86 machines I have lying around.
AFAIK a majority of Chromebooks are x86 (which has always been funny to me because surely that's the best case for ARM but w/e). Therefore, I think it's reasonable to assume that any new ChromeOS-on-Android OS will probably run on x86. Now I grant that x86 Chromebooks are already not using normal UEFI so there is a small gap there... but if you're already building the same OS for the same CPU on basically the same hardware, surely it's worth the... what, couple days of work?... to add an UEFI bootloader to vastly increase your hardware coverage. For bonus points, this should make it (even) easier to run in VMs for dev reasons.
All of which to say: Yeah, I'm actually somewhat optimistic that we get official Android x86 out of this.