Re: More useful generic-x86 machine

[Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>]

On 06/13/2012 01:44 PM, Ross Burton wrote:
> 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?

Seems reasonable to me. We should probably have 32b and 64b of this
machine as well.


-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Linux Kernel