On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:23 PM Matthias Petermann <m...@petermann-it.de> wrote: > today a small hardware question. I would like to buy a Mini-PC, on which > NetBSD should be used as primary desktop operating system. I thought > about an Intel NUC. Such a device from the lower end of the performance > scale with Celeron-CPU I already have in use as a home server (model > NUC5PPYH). But for the desktop it may be a bit more power. An i5 with > SSD and 8 GB RAM or more seems to be a good choice. While I assume that > the often used Realtek-LAN-chipsets and USB 3.0 are no longer a big > problem, I am more concerned about the support of the integrated > graphics. In intel(4) the Intel Iris and Intel Iris Pro chipsets and > Intel HD are mentioned as supported. Not included are Intel UHD, which > is used in some of the newer NUCs. Is there any way to find out in > advance if the respective integrated graphics will be supported by > NetBSD's Xorg? I would like to use the Intel driver and I would not like > to switch to the less performant VESA driver. I would also be grateful > for a concrete model name, if one of you has such a NUC with a > specification of my choice and can confirm that everything works fine.
Not all NUCs have crappy processors. I have one with an i7 (the 6i7KYK or something like that), and it works just fine with NetBSD. 9.0 was the first release that supported the Intel on-board graphics (Iris, I believe). -- Benny