** Description changed: [ Description ] Intel has requested us to update the media driver (free and non-free) to 24.3.4 due to the need to have Lunar Lake (LNL) and Battle Mage (BMG) support. This request has a strong dependency on an intel-gmmlib version bump to 22.5.2 and a libva version bump to 2.22.0. [ Impact ] - * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage currently do not have an LTS support option, which is not a good option for some users, as seen here: + * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage currently do not have an LTS support option, which is not a good option for some users, as seen here: https://github.com/canonical/intel-graphics-preview/issues/8 - * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage hardware will not have hardware- + * Users with Lunar Lake or Battlemage hardware will not have hardware- enabled media support, which can effect the power consumption and CPU utilization of the machine during encode/decode/transcode operations, video calls, streaming, etc. [ Test Plan ] # On a Lunar Lake or Battlemage machine # Required at this time to get baseline enablement sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kobuk-team/intel-graphics-testing sudo apt update # Get the original versions back sudo apt install -y intel-media-va-driver-non-free=24.1.0+ds1-1 libva2=2.20.0-2build1 libigdgmm12=22.3.17+ds1-1 vainfo=2.12.0+ds1-1 libva-drm2=2.20.0-2build1 libva-wayland2=2.20.0-2build1 libva-x11-2=2.20.0-2build1 # This should result in an error sudo vainfo sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:mckeesh/testing && sudo apt -y update # Only upgrade the media packages sudo apt install -y intel-media-va-driver-non-free=24.3.4+ds1-0ubuntu1 libva2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 libigdgmm12=22.5.2-0ubuntu1 libva-drm2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 libva-wayland2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 libva-x11-2=2.22.0-1ubuntu1 vainfo=2.12.0+ds1-1 # This should no longer result in an error sudo vainfo [ Where problems could occur ] - * This is a sizable change, and while significant testing goes into + * This is a sizable change, and while significant testing goes into making sure the media stack does not regress, it's always a risk. Ubuntu has a large user base with many, many corner cases, and media stack bumps can always accidentally regress a less popular codec on an older platform. However, we can address any smaller regressions that might arise when the benefit is enablement of LNL and BMG. + * Beyond Intel's extensive in-house testing, we have done our own + testing via FFMPEG to check for AV1, VP9, and H264 hardware acceleration + for encode and decode at 1080p and 4K. In addition to Lunar Lake and + Battlemage, we have also tested Alder Lake, Comet Lake, and Gemini Lake + and found no regressions across these platforms + [ Other Info ]
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