** Summary changed: - Backport more recent driver for Skylake graphics hardware + Backport more recent driver for Skylake and Cherryview graphics hardware
** Description changed: - We need to support Skylake (SKL) graphics in vivid, but the kernel - driver is not fresh enough for proper support. + 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_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. + (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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1420774 Title: Backport more recent driver for Skylake and Cherryview graphics hardware Status in linux package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1420774/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
