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Activity log for bug #1420774

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2015-02-11 12:19:06 Timo Aaltonen bug added bug
2015-02-11 12:19:22 Timo Aaltonen linux (Ubuntu): importance Undecided High
2015-02-11 12:19:22 Timo Aaltonen linux (Ubuntu): status New In Progress
2015-02-11 12:19:22 Timo Aaltonen linux (Ubuntu): assignee Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
2015-03-17 08:24:03 Timo Aaltonen summary Backport more recent driver for Skylake graphics hardware Backport more recent driver for Skylake and Cherryview graphics hardware
2015-03-17 08:25:02 Timo Aaltonen description 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.
2015-04-01 10:08:47 Andy Whitcroft linux (Ubuntu): status In Progress Fix Committed
2015-04-03 22:21:30 Launchpad Janitor linux (Ubuntu): status Fix Committed Fix Released