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Intel declares Clover Trail Atom processor a "no Linux" zone (ars technica)Intel declares Clover Trail Atom processor a "no Linux" zone (ars technica)Posted Sep 15, 2012 19:03 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)In reply to: Intel declares Clover Trail Atom processor a "no Linux" zone (ars technica) by theophrastus Parent article: Intel declares Clover Trail Atom processor a "no Linux" zone (ars technica)
Make it look nothing like a PC. If anyone had shipped Moorestown in its non-ACPI mode then it wouldn't have booted unmodified Windows.
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Intel declares Clover Trail Atom processor a "no Linux" zone (ars technica) Posted Sep 15, 2012 20:32 UTC (Sat) by Trelane (subscriber, #56877) [Link]
Would the various BSDs be able to use it? If so, it's more a Non-Windows processor than a Linux-only processor. (Of course, with the GPL, you have the option of a cleanroom implementation. But still.)
Intel declares Clover Trail Atom processor a "no Linux" zone (ars technica) Posted Sep 15, 2012 20:37 UTC (Sat) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
Sure, in the same way that you could run Photoshop on Linux if you wrote it first.
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