Atom netbook recommendation?

Atom netbook recommendation?

[Bob Cochran]

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.

Thanks,

Bob

Re: Atom netbook recommendation?

[Osier-mixon, Jeffrey]

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Hi Bob!

I don't know if anyone has created software for a netbook yet. I have a
Lenovo Ideapad S510 on which I sometimes run MeeGo, and it seems fairly
solid, though it may be out of production now. I have heard that the eee
PCs are fairly easy to hack also.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Bob Cochran <yocto@mindchasers.com> 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.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
>
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Re: Atom netbook recommendation?

[Joshua Lock]

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.

Cheers,
Joshua
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Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: Atom netbook recommendation?

[Darren Hart]

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

Re: Atom netbook recommendation?

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart@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

Re: Atom netbook recommendation?

[Bob Cochran]

On 11/23/2011 02:51 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Darren Hart<dvhart@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 
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

Re: 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@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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Yocto Project - Linux Kernel