Intel's Linux Graphics Driver To Enable Atomic Support By Default

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel's Linux Graphics Driver To Enable Atomic Support By Default

The patch landed in Intel's drm-intel-next-queued branch this week for enabling atomic support by default on the hardware platforms where it's fully supported...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Atomic-Default-Change

[davidbepo]

can it improve performance?

[Wilfred]

can it improve performance?

They claim it can. The main benefit should be a smoother experience.

[uid313]

It would be nice to have atomic enabled and the same screen resolution all the way from POST in BIOS/UEFI to bootloader, booting of OS and Wayland.

[kyrios]

There is an improvement in MATE when the OSD is being displayed (e.g.: when increasing/decreasing the brightness while watching a video).
Unlike the nividia GPU (I don't see any flickering with the proprietary drivers), the flickering is still noticeable on the intel iGPU but lesser than before.

[Zan Lynx]

It would be nice to have atomic enabled and the same screen resolution all the way from POST in BIOS/UEFI to bootloader, booting of OS and Wayland.

It already works like that on my Dell with Fedora 25.

Problem is, the fonts in GRUB and the terminal are incredibly tiny on a 4K 15" laptop screen. One of these days I need to figure out how to load 2x fonts for both. It is possible, I know. Just not a priority for me.

[liam]

It already works like that on my Dell with Fedora 25.

Problem is, the fonts in GRUB and the terminal are incredibly tiny on a 4K 15" laptop screen. One of these days I need to figure out how to load 2x fonts for both. It is possible, I know. Just not a priority for me.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#Linux_console