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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Fri,  4 Jan 2013 12:58:28 -0500
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9atom
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On Fri Jan  4 11:35:03 EST 2013, 9fans@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