From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [143.182.124.37]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA8AE006D9 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga102.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Jun 2012 13:49:11 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="155999968" Received: from unknown (HELO envy.home) ([10.255.12.119]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Jun 2012 13:49:11 -0700 Message-ID: <4FD8FC7A.6000209@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:47:54 -0700 From: Darren Hart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120605 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ross Burton References: <21DFE0D0610B43B982449CB678019727@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <21DFE0D0610B43B982449CB678019727@intel.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.2 Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: 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 20:49:12 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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