I have a Laptop with an Intel Atom Z3735F CPU and since FreeBSD now supports installation for 32-bit UEFI, it is installable on that machine and actually works like a charm, booting fast and using few resources. Unfortunately, FreeBSD does neither support the Wi-Fi chip nor the sound chip (es8316). I could live with buying an external Wi-Fi dongle, but sound is really a problem, as I would like to be able to use the internal speakers. The only OS that supports everything out of the box (especially the sound) is Fedora, but it takes a really long time to boot an some tuning is required to make the experience any pleasant (e.g. disabling zram) in the end. And although I get sound in firefox and audacious, I do not in kodi or astromenace. Needless to say that sound on Linux in general is a very unpleasant experience, ALSA, pipewire, wireplumber and I don't know what else. So my dream would really be to be able to use FreeBSD on that little machine.
So is there any work being done for that es8316 chip, which is part of that Intel Atom SoC? I could at least get involved as a tester, if required.
Googeling I had found this: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=escodec&sektion=4&manpath=OpenBSD+7.1
So I installed OpenBSD, which according to this has a driver for that chip, but it did not work / no sound device was found. And NetBSD won't install at all on that machine.
So is there any work being done for that es8316 chip, which is part of that Intel Atom SoC? I could at least get involved as a tester, if required.
Googeling I had found this: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=escodec&sektion=4&manpath=OpenBSD+7.1
So I installed OpenBSD, which according to this has a driver for that chip, but it did not work / no sound device was found. And NetBSD won't install at all on that machine.