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
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