Re: Intel Atom Processor
"Paul Wise" <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Kushal Koolwal
> <kushalkoolwal@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And therefore I was thinking if Debian Project is planning to natively support these?
>
> I noticed this page being created on the wiki recently:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne
>
> Looks like at least one person plans to work on it in some way.
>
> Since it is just x86, the i386 port would probably work fine on it.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_(CPU)
I might be wrong but I thought the atom CPU would add 64bit
support. As such the Debian amd64 port should work as well.
Then, for better optimization for low disk/memory systems, the emdebian
project would be the right place. Currently the project is quite arm
centered as most hardware uses that, esspecially those the devlopers
have. But mips is also a target and I'm personally interested in
supporting i386 for my VIA Eden gateway/fileserver and amd64 for
netboot rescue images.
MfG
Goswin
PS: The best way to get it supported is to sponsor the hardware or to
talk someone else into sponsoring it.
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