From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31952E013A6 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orsmga001.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.18]) by orsmga102.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Jun 2012 17:41:13 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,352,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="152870194" Received: from unknown (HELO envy.home) ([10.255.12.119]) by orsmga001.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 13 Jun 2012 17:41:12 -0700 Message-ID: <4FD932DC.5020107@linux.intel.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:39:56 -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: "Stewart, David C" References: <21DFE0D0610B43B982449CB678019727@intel.com> In-Reply-To: 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: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:41:23 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/13/2012 03:50 PM, Stewart, David C wrote: >> From: yocto-bounces@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto- >> bounces@yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Ross Burton >> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:45 PM >> >> 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 thought we had some Sandy Bridge BSP already? We do. The problem is that doesn't define things like which wifi device is used. There seems to be a reasonable amount of interest in a much more generally useful x86 BSP. This seems to fit the goals of the atom-pc BSP, which has become a bit stale. > >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> yocto mailing list >> yocto@yoctoproject.org >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto > -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Linux Kernel