** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: In Progress => Fix Committed
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Title:
Backport more recent driver for Skylake and Cherryview graphics
hardware
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
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.
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