Public bug reported:
We need to support Skylake (SKL) 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.
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: High
Assignee: Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
Status: In Progress
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1420774
Title:
Backport more recent driver for Skylake graphics hardware
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Bug description:
We need to support Skylake (SKL) 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.
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