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The hard part is figuring out whether stuff like keyboard backlight will work. Even for popular developer models like the pixelbook, you google around and find two or three conflicting reddit posts that tell you it doesn't work but there's a fix in this link to a tweet that's been deleted.

Does audio work? Does the headphone jack work? Does headphone jack auto sense work?

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I use MrChromebox firmware on a Pixelbook (Eve) and many things work fine, like Wi-Fi, suspend, brightness, and keyboard backlight. Annoyingly, audio doesn't work. I can't remember whether camera/microphone work.

I know that a lot of Chromebooks with Intel IPUs are not going to work with a mainline kernel for a couple years at least.

Isn't the first IPU6 Chromebook still years away from ChromeOS EOL?

That's a good point, but some want to run new ChromeOS devices with a mainline kernel I would think.

They'll have to use the ChromeOS kernel or some module I guess.

I've run linux (debian and arch) on several chromebooks over the years using MrChromebox and I've never been able to get working audio. I've never had issues other that audio though.

Everything works. Yes there is some fiddling (think getting things to work on Ubuntu 5 years ago) but things work.

Edit: yes your specific questions (audio, audio autosense, etc.) work.

So that's two votes no, one vote yes for audio working.

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