From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from azsmga102.ch.intel.com (mga12.intel.com [143.182.124.36]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 025EFE006D9 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-ey0-f180.google.com ([209.85.215.180]) by mga14.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/RC4-SHA; 13 Jun 2012 13:44:57 -0700 Received: by eaai12 with SMTP id i12so310108eaa.25 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:44:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:message-id:subject:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:x-gm-message-state; bh=0j4z9J9qhuW7pnir9LLfX3+2c9GqxUceiEIVVTwMAd0=; b=aV3oNJNw9/dQa8huZ2x0RI3M6zz2Umfg30YZS553WU8BjwwU7z1JWegtBGw/ApGEqN TliVBTfnsAMP4WV0fhc3bzXAUt94z54vg5g5w221B3LaqAHBeoDeZ4i3ZkJVCblAnJs4 Bm+2IzmT8/tHGIMSLQwlC87ocVT/hGk4fsZBVRdsHhF+hpVvBcQBWGYy2ube2Elktw4Z S8J67fF+XcCXJqm5lqAI+leQB9pRll/wRVSOQJHgYGnnLlIMsi6Uh63SouMLpEJSZww4 H5aqkFTUq4FVYNKnKosw2uDSnPYa+o2CzAB2iXxv0OauLPxHAZnyJ5lAE+Eg9Ynw0Lak 8o6w== Received: by 10.14.101.78 with SMTP id a54mr8506683eeg.92.1339620295366; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elizabeth.local (35.106.2.81.in-addr.arpa. [81.2.106.35]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u16sm11505476eeb.16.2012.06.13.13.44.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:44:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:44:50 +0100 From: Ross Burton To: yocto@yoctoproject.org Message-ID: <21DFE0D0610B43B982449CB678019727@intel.com> X-Mailer: sparrow 1.4.2 (build 959.4) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnokMwFHfpqGa1rnN/ly9ogPQjbazPMP3k0HUItdsQoTm1k46mOGZJdXeD9eIyhMij4XURA Subject: More useful generic-x86 machine X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:45:18 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, My current test hardware for Yocto work is a Celeron-class Sandy Bridge-based micro PC. As is to be expected for a machine like this, it's got modern Intel graphics and wireless. Neither of which are supported by atom-pc, as it's nominally a "generic netbook" image. Let's face it -- it's a really bad generic netbook image, it's really a Asus eeePC701-and-similar image. Specifically, only one wifi driver, only i915 GPU driver, and so on. I'm not arguing for a true generic kernel such as Fedora maintains which boots on almost everything, just a new machine with more flexibility. Including both i915 and i965 GPU drivers covers everything Intel-driven from the earliest netbook to the latest Ivy Bridge[1]. Including the iwl wifi drivers at least covers a good proportion of devices out there. There are probably a few more drivers that are common and give big gains in support. Not exactly boot on everything, but certainly boot on many. Thoughts? Ross [1] Ignoring Cedar Trail, but that's already in meta-intel