Thanks for any sightings out there of a working system,
aside from Fedlet (which I tried on my Iconia W4-821)
there is nothing I can see so far.
I asked some of the vendors on Alibaba and they said
absolutely no way would they even try to put Ubuntu
on Bay Trail tablet.
(They will for n2600 i3/i5 and other stuff - but not Bay Trail)
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To be pedantic about it,
I think most of the problem may have been the 32bit EFI
because just as Bay Trail comes out the tide is turning
against 32bit EFI implementations in linux.
Rod at http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/index.html
provides refind which I used to bootstrap everything
but what the system really needs is a true 32bit bootable
that can be directly loaded from the EFI partition.
I tried recompiling the kernel from 3.14 through to 3.17.2
and absolutely no sign of life for the sd bus out there.
I did manage to get a 64bit loader to boot,
but the screen was hosed - the i915 driver is not 64bit perfect.
(in my machine, maybe somebody else will get lucky, though)
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There are some truly pathetic stories about Bay Trail out there,
and it makes for some good laughs when you read about
the contortions people have been put through by all this junk.
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Cheers, anyway