Public bug reported: We need to support Broadwell (BDW) graphics in trusty, but some components are not fresh enough to provide a satisfactory user experience, most notably the 3.13 kernel and mesa 10.1.
For the kernel the plan is to provide a separate driver module (i915_bdw) like for Haswell in quantal. The i915 driver in 3.13 is buggy and lacking features for BDW, so pulling the driver from current drm- intel-next branch would provide what'll end up in 3.15. The i915 drivers will be modified so that only i915_bdw loads on BDW machines, and only there. The driver will get further updates along the way, and possibly also rebased to a later kernel release. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Assignee: Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) Status: In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => In Progress ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) -- 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/1294144 Title: Include support for Broadwell graphics hardware Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: We need to support Broadwell (BDW) graphics in trusty, but some components are not fresh enough to provide a satisfactory user experience, most notably the 3.13 kernel and mesa 10.1. For the kernel the plan is to provide a separate driver module (i915_bdw) like for Haswell in quantal. The i915 driver in 3.13 is buggy and lacking features for BDW, so pulling the driver from current drm-intel-next branch would provide what'll end up in 3.15. The i915 drivers will be modified so that only i915_bdw loads on BDW 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/1294144/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp