> From: [email protected] [mailto:yocto- > [email protected]] 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? > 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 > [email protected] > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
