From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [143.182.124.37]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902B5E00309 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:43:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga102.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 23 Nov 2011 11:43:50 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.69,560,1315206000"; d="scan'208";a="78584947" Received: from unknown (HELO envy.home) ([10.255.12.65]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 23 Nov 2011 11:43:49 -0800 Message-ID: <4ECD4CF8.4020005@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:43:52 -0800 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joshua Lock References: <4ECAF89E.1030505@mindchasers.com> <4ECC2718.50008@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4ECC2718.50008@linux.intel.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: Atom netbook recommendation? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:43:50 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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