Intel Says Clover Trail Atom CPU Won't Work With Linux 434
girlmad tips this news from the Inquirer:
"Intel's Clover Trail Atom processor can be seen in various non-descript laptops around IDF and the firm provided a lot of architectural details on the chip, confirming details such as dual-core and a number of power states. However Intel said Clover Trail 'is a Windows 8 chip' and that 'the chip cannot run Linux.' While Intel's claim that Clover Trail won't run Linux is not quite true — after all, it is an x86 instruction set, so there is no major reason why the Linux kernel and userland will not run — given that the firm will not support it, device makers are unlikely to produce Linux Clover Trail devices for their own support reasons."
Re:They've got it backwards. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They've got it backwards. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:They've got it backwards. (Score:5, Funny)
it IS magic. you really can get new kernels for hardware that has no docs released. you simply cat from /dev/skyfairy. a new kernel is given to you if the skyfairy device thinks you are worthy.
Re:Really, Linux won't (currently) support CT (Score:5, Funny)
Bringing reason into a discussion about Windows vs. Linux *AND* actually reading the article?!?!
Sir, I demand you surrender your Slashdot membership card!
Re:They've got it backwards. (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.
Re:They've got it backwards. (Score:5, Funny)
A beowulf cluster of Linux-powered Velociraptors? I'd pay good money to see that. From a safe distance.
Re:They've got it backwards. (Score:5, Funny)
#!/bin/sh /dev/urandom /dev/skyfairy
# million monkeys sky fairy code generator
ln -s
dd if=/dev/skyfairy of=/boot/bzImage bs=1k count=3000
reboot
Re:They've got it backwards. (Score:5, Funny)
You have to do a "mknod /dev/tooth bp" for /dev/skyfairy to create the new kernel. The temporary device is deleted after the kernel creation is completed.
On some versions of Linux 3.x, you may need to init /dev/tooth for /dev/skyfairy to work correctly. Do read the man page.
Re:They've got it backwards. (Score:5, Funny)
But how can you be sure?
There's only one way.
Re:antitrust issues? (Score:5, Funny)
I think I could count on one hand the number of Windows 8 users worldwide and I think that 7 of them are bored with it.
My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.