[yocto] Atom netbook recommendation?

[Darren Hart]

On 12/18/2011 11:56 AM, Bob Cochran wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 02:51 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Darren Hart<dvhart at linux.intel.com>  wrote:
>>> We also have things working on the Toshiba NB305. The atom-pc machine
>>>
>>
>> FWIW I have asus eepc here and it works great with yocto/oe-core/meta-intel
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> Thanks for the feedback everyone.  I now have a dual core Atom N570 
> netbook (Acer Aspire One model).
> 
> It didn't boot the hddimage off of a usb stick (SysLinux halted - I'll 

This is likely due to a buggy BIOS. See the README.hardware section
about formatting the disk as USBZIP format.

We hope to address this with a more robust live hddimg type in the future.

> figure out why later), but I have been having fun booting modified yocto 
> standard Linux images using grub.  I put a 2.5" 60 G OCZ SSD in it along 
> with loading Ubuntu.  It can build poky minimal from scratch in a few 
> hours and rebuilds the kernel fairly quick (should get downright good 
> once I upgrade the RAM from 1G).   At this point, I'm having fun playing 
> with the kernel and the initial ram disk with a custom init.
> 
> And the nice thing with the SSD installed is that it boots Ubuntu in a 
> few seconds for when I want to make mods to my poky image.  It makes for 
> a very cool little development system!
> 
> Bob
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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel