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) -- 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/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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1420774/+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