Patches Resubmitted For Linux With Selectable Intel Graphics Platform Support

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Patches Resubmitted For Linux With Selectable Intel Graphics Platform Support

16 April 2021, 03:00 AM

Phoronix: Patches Resubmitted For Linux With Selectable Intel Graphics Platform Support

Back in early 2018 were patches proposed for selectable platform support when building Intel's kernel graphics driver so users/distributions if desired could disable extremely old hardware support and/or cater kernel builds for specific Intel graphics generations. Three years later those patches have been re-proposed...

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17 April 2021, 08:46 AM

So modular graphics support so they can kill off the old stuff at will. Sounds very user friendly.
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