Re: Mini-PC for NetBSD

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 3:23 PM Matthias Petermann <mp%petermann-it.de@localhost> 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