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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote : Backport more recent driver for Skylake graphics hardware

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.