2015-03-17 08:25:02 |
Timo Aaltonen |
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We need to support Skylake (SKL) graphics in vivid, but the kernel driver is not fresh enough for proper support.
For the kernel the plan is to provide a separate driver module (i915_skl) like for Haswell in quantal and Broadwell in trusty. The i915 driver in 3.19 is buggy and lacking features for SKL, so pulling the driver from current drm-intel-next-queued branch would provide what'll end up in 3.21. The i915 drivers will be modified so that only i915_skl loads on SKL machines, and only there. The driver will get further updates along the way, and possibly also rebased to a later kernel release. |
We need to support Skylake (SKL) and Cherryview (CHV) graphics in vivid, but the kernel driver is not fresh enough for proper support.
For the kernel the plan is to provide a separate driver module (i915_bpo) like for Haswell in quantal and Broadwell in trusty. The i915 driver in 3.19 is buggy and lacking features for SKL/CHV, so pulling the driver from current drm-intel-next branch would provide what'll end up in 4.1. The i915 drivers will be modified so that only i915_bpo loads on SKL machines, and only there. The driver will get further updates along the way, and possibly also rebased to a later kernel release. |
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