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

[Koen Kooi]

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Nick Latito schreef:
> 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.

Your best bet is to work with Jon Bradbury (CC:ed) to test his program that generates a
boost header. Once we can succesfully boot a 2.6.9 kernel image with that, we can look at
updating the kernel port (mostly forward porting the pcon driver to the new i2c code).

regards,

Koen


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