** Summary changed: - Backport more recent driver for Skylake graphics hardware + Backport more recent driver for Skylake and Cherryview graphics hardware
** Description changed: - We need to support Skylake (SKL) graphics in vivid, but the kernel - driver is not fresh enough for proper support. + We need to support Skylake (SKL) and Cherryview (CHV) 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. + (i915_bpo) like for Haswell in quantal and Broadwell in trusty. The i915 + driver in 3.19 is buggy and lacking features for SKL/CHV, so pulling the + driver from current drm-intel-next branch would provide what'll end up + in 4.1. The i915 drivers will be modified so that only i915_bpo 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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1420774 Title: Backport more recent driver for Skylake and Cherryview graphics hardware To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1420774/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
