Intel Sends In A Second Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 4.9

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Sends In A Second Batch Of Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 4.9

Earlier this month Intel submitted their first batch of i915 DRM driver updates to DRM-Next that in turn is now targeting the Linux 4.9 kernel. A second batch of new feature material was submitted today...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-DRM-Next-4.9-2

[edoantonioco]

what about proper vulkan support on haswell? I havent seen an update on that

[arekm]

haswell is likely obsolete in terms of intel development... they seem to target latest generations (often these unreleased)

[zxy_thf]

haswell is likely obsolete in terms of intel development... they seem to target latest generations (often these unreleased)

and probably fixing the nasty skylake bugs.

[Gusar]

what about proper vulkan support on haswell? I havent seen an update on that

There's been no blog post or similar about it, but if you follow the mesa-dev mailing list, there's a steady stream of Vulkan patches often with gen7/7.5 in the title. So stuff is happening.

[caligula]

This is like the millionth release with yet another set of atomic mode setting patches. Is the feature ever ready?

[Wilfred]

and probably fixing the nasty skylake bugs.

Are those ever going to be fixed? Does this batch of patches fix them?

[starshipeleven]

haswell is likely obsolete in terms of intel development... they seem to target latest generations (often these unreleased)

Wat? They are still enabling opengl stuff to all graphics from Ivybridge and up, ok that Ivy isn't going to see Vulkan, but "they target latest generations" is a bit excessive.

[samdraz]

release window for kabylake is coming soon, they might be adding support for that, for targeting 4.9