[yocto] More useful generic-x86 machine

[Stewart, David C]

> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
> bounces at 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?

> 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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