CONFIG_DRM_I915_PRELIMINARY_HW_SUPPORT should be disabled
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Timo Aaltonen |
Bug Description
CONFIG_
But it has it's downsides too, the most important being that a release might ship with a kernel that has limited driver support for the new hardware, causing issues like the installer booting to a blank screen or crashing halfway through. In these cases it's best to rely on the fallback gfx driver so that the system can be installed and also used with limited functionality, until a proper (and possibly a 3rd party) kernel can be installed.
This is also what upstream suggests for us to do. The setting can be overriden on kernel cmdline, so it allows testing said hw with i915.preliminar
CVE References
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 4.1.0-1.1
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linux (4.1.0-1.1) wily; urgency=low
[ Andy Whitcroft ]
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[ Leann Ogasawara ]
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* Release Tracking Bug
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* [Config] CONFIG_
* [Config] DEFAULT_
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* [Config] CONFIG_VM86=n
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* [Config] ACORN_PARTITION=n
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[ Timo Aaltonen ]
* [Config] Disable CONFIG_ DRM_I915_ PRELIMINARY_ HW_SUPPORT
- LP: #1473319
[ Upstream Kernel Changes ]
* efi: efivar_ create_ sysfs_entry( ) should return negative error codes
* efi: Add esrt support
* x86, doc: Remove cmdline_size from list of fields to be filled in for
EFI handover
* efi/esrt: Fix some compiler warnings
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* ALSA: hda - restore the MIC FIXUP for some Dell machines
- LP: #1473560
* mtd: powernv: Add powernv flash MTD abstraction driver
- LP: #1464560
* powerpc/powernv: Expose OPAL APIs required by PRD interface
- LP: #1464560
* powerpc/powernv: Add opal-prd channel
- LP: #1464560
* powerpc/powernv: fix construction of opal PRD messages
- LP: #1464560
* powerpc/include: Add opal-prd to installed uapi headers
- LP: #1464560
* powerpc/powernv: Fix vma page prot flags in opal-prd driver
- LP: #1464560
-- Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> Mon, 20 Jul 2015 10:16:06 -0700