Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux

Re:Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux by anonymous on Friday September 14, 2012 @05:16AM (#4520857)

I'd bet on 3, too. Sounds like they slapped the only good-enough gfx core they are sure will work on an Atom, so they'd have something that at least works well with Windows 8 at launch. The next-gen Atom cores will use the same gfx core as their Ivy Bridge processors, but that won't be ready for some time.

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Re:Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux by mtgx on Friday September 14, 2012 @05:33AM (#4520892)

It probably means Windows 8 is the only OS it supports. Even Windows 7 might not work on it.

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Re:Intel says Clover Trail will not work with Linux by pmjordan on Friday September 14, 2012 @06:18AM (#4520982)

Much like the Medfield SoC it derives from, I suspect Clover Trail doesn't use a BIOS or various basic I/O lines and conventions that have been standard in the PC world for decades. So yeah, I wouldn't expect a stock Win7 to run at all.

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