Acer Aspire 1 A114-61 (acer-aspire1)

Acer Aspire 1 is a low-end Windows on ARM laptop, based on Snapdragon 7c Gen1, a platform that has great mainline Linux support due to some Chromebooks sharing the same platform.

Variant differences
While the most common version of the device seems to be the "WiFi" variant, an "LTE" version with 8GB ram seem to also exist.

Contributors

 * travmurav

Disabling UEFI Secure-Boot
This device uses the standard UEFI secure-boot. The initial configuration seem to contain the keys for some Linux distributors (i.e. Canonical or Debian) but for now it's probably easiest to just disable it.

Note that the following actions may cause Windows to fail decryption if the Bitlocker was enabled.


 * 1) Power on the device and press F2 to enter UEFI setup.
 * 2) Go to the Security tab and set the maintenance password. Write it down.
 * 3) Go to the Boot tab and disable the Secure Boot. This option is only available if the password is set.
 * 4) Go back to the Security tab and remove the password by changing it to the empty string.

Installing pmOS on an external storage
You should be able to perform sdcard installation with some usb-stick as the target. Note that the laptop has no SD slot.

Highly consider making a backup of the internal storage, it seems like the recovery media is not available for this laptop.

Installing pmOS on the internal eMMC
TBD

Known Issues

 * Audio is only minimally implemented.
 * Hall/lid sensor is not enabled at this time.