[Angstrom-devel] Netbook Pro mentor/interest/moving forward?

[Nick Latito]

Hello all
I have a Netbook pro which I'm very interested in running Linux on -
it seems to be a great machine hardware wise, and Angstrom would be
near perfect for it.

I've seen screenshots that suggest that Koen has had OZ running on the
machine: that's great, and suggests that this is absolutely possible!
I've also seen that Jon Bradbury is trying to pull together
information in the Wiki, but I couldn't see his contact details
anywhere.  From an OE perspective, it seems Florian and Koen are the
keys, but I didn't want to just mail them out of the blue as I'm sure
they have far too many people bothering them directly already ;-)

Is there an update as to the port's status?  I've checked the wiki,
both sites, the FAQ and OE.

Assuming it's still in the early stages, which approach is being taken
to putting the distro on the machine: is the BoOST approach
(overwriting the firmware) preferred, or can we go with HaRET?  It
seems that Windows CE copies itself from the flash on boot as
approximately 40MB of the 128MB disappears from the available memory
within WinCE, so if we have to use HaRET we'd probably be losing less
than that.

My experience in low level hacking is limited, and work and family
life don't like leaving me much spare time, but I'd like to help move
this on.  Is anyone on here already working on this, and do you know
what work is needed?

There's a few people at HPCFactor.com forums that would be interested
in running this too, so there might be a team of willing testers at
the very least.

Cheers,
Nick.