Author: renodr
Date: Tue Aug 11 18:36:47 2020
New Revision: 23493

Log:
Restore the Intel Iris driver to Mesa now that it works with my skylake. Credit 
goes to Xi for putting the driver in initially.

Modified:
   trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
   trunk/BOOK/x/installing/mesa.xml

Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml       Tue Aug 11 18:25:28 
2020        (r23492)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml       Tue Aug 11 18:36:47 
2020        (r23493)
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
       <para>August 11th, 2020</para>
       <itemizedlist>
         <listitem>
+          <para>[renodr] - Reintroduce the Intel Iris Mesa driver.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
           <para>[renodr] - Fix CVE-2020-14347 in xorg-server. Fixes
           <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;13871">#13871</ulink>.</para>
         </listitem>

Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/installing/mesa.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/x/installing/mesa.xml    Tue Aug 11 18:25:28 2020        (r23492)
+++ trunk/BOOK/x/installing/mesa.xml    Tue Aug 11 18:36:47 2020        (r23493)
@@ -220,17 +220,7 @@
       </para>
     </note>
 
-    <!-- The iris driver has been temporarily removed from the below line.
-         With mesa-20.0.5, it caused crashes and occasional system lockups.
-         Exporting MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965 was able to fix it on
-         my Skylake (i5-6600k) system, but that overrides the iris driver.
-         Let's revisit this at a later time, maybe in a few releases or when
-         the hardware is more accessible. See 
-         
http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2020-April/037385.html
-         For more information/context.-->
-    <!-- Let's revisit Iris at 20.0.7, it's now known upstream -->
-
-<screen><userinput>GALLIUM_DRV="i915,nouveau,r600,radeonsi,svga,swrast,virgl"
+<screen><userinput>GALLIUM_DRV="i915,iris,nouveau,r600,radeonsi,svga,swrast,virgl"
 DRI_DRIVERS="i965,nouveau"</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>
@@ -363,6 +353,7 @@
           d3dadapter9.so, <!-- For Windows games. This is DirectX's Direct3D 
-->
           i915_dri.so,
           i965_dri.so,
+          iris_dri.so,
           kms_swrast_dri.so,
           nouveau_dri.so,
           nouveau_drv_video.so,
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