On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 10:49:08AM +0200, Hanno Zulla wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for asking a possibly obvious question, but: > > Why is support for Cherry Trail / Bay Trail so bad in the mainline > kernel? Is this being worked on? And where can one help or track the > progress with improving this? Works for me! :) > Recently, I bought a Win10 netbook to install Linux on. It's a > beautiful small device with a fanless Z3735F CPU. Just right for my > kids as their first own computer. > > After using Intel hardware since several years without a hitch, it was > surprising to find this not being fully supported by current 2016 Linux > distributions. > > The Wifi is not running at all, lost the network with a Wifi stick that > works fine on RPi and the system freezes every now and then for no > reproducible reasons. Googling around, all I found were similar > complaints by other Linux users and a confusing array of incomplete > third-party driver projects not ready for mainline, like this one: > > https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs/issues/96 That is not an Intel part, not much Intel can do here about that. I suggest asking about this device on the linux-wireless mailing list, the developers there can help you as they are working on a cleaned up driver for that chip. > Also, there's a litany of "don't buy Cherry Trail or Bay Trail devices > for Linux" articles, which probably would have been helpful to read > before buying that fateful device. And almost all of those are wrong :) Almost all Android tablets shipping right now are BayTrail devices, so it is a working platform for Linux. > This is sad to watch. I tried to find a different device for my kids, > but all of the netbook-like devices on the market now share this > problem. A whole generation of very interesting devices appears to be > lost for Linux users. > > Is there hope for this device class or does one have to stick to Core i > CPUs for the time being? All you have is an issue with a non-Intel wifi chip? What else is wrong? Have you filed bugs for this with your distro-of-choice? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
