On Fri Jan 4 11:35:03 EST 2013, 9f...@hamnavoe.com wrote: > > originally, the goal was to get atom machines working. > > It should be pointed out that the standard Plan 9 distribution > also works on atom processors. It's not the atom cpu itself, > but other details of chipset and peripheral interfaces, which > determines which kernel variant will run on a given motherboard.
yes, the problems are mostly in the bios setup and details of the hardware. (which may or may not be on-die or on package with the cpu.) i don't believe all the problems have been fixed. it certainly was impossible to boot most atom machines at one point. - erik