Re: Atom netbook recommendation?

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 11/22/2011 02:50 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> Hi Bob,
> 
> On 21/11/11 17:19, Bob Cochran wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We're going to bring an Atom based netbook in house for some additional
>> yocto testing. I would greatly appreciate any recommendations for ones
>> that behave well with the yocto project & are solid in general. Also,
>> letting me know about any netbooks to avoid would also be appreciated.
> 
> I assume the plan is to build for the netbooks, not on the netbooks? :-)
> 
> I've run Poky built images on a bunch of older netbooks I have lying 
> around by Samsung, Acer and Asus.
> 
> I think you should be fine with pretty much any netbook you can get but 
> I strongly recommend you avoid anything which requires non-open drivers 
> - that way you have a better chance of the stock kernel just working.
> 
> Just last week I built an image for my Samsung NC10 and the stock kernel 
> worked fine.
> 

We also have things working on the Toshiba NB305. The atom-pc machine
config lists some others - although they aren't particularly current.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel