More Icelake Work Queued Along With Other Graphics Driver Enhancements For Linux 4.19

[phoronix]

Phoronix: More Icelake Work Queued Along With Other Graphics Driver Enhancements For Linux 4.19

Intel began submitting graphics/DRM driver updates two weeks ago to begin targeting the Linux 4.19 kernel merge window while on Monday was their second batch of changes to hit DRM-Next...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.19-i915-DRM-Round-2

[dkasak]

I'd love it if my Skylake could reliably resume from suspend. That said, I haven't had a single system with an Intel GPU that has been able to pull off this feat, so maybe I'm asking too much.

[coder]

... prepping for full PPGTT enabling on existing graphics hardware ...

Had to search for this:

PPGTT is short for the Per-Process Graphics Translation Tables. PPGTT is a feature supported by Intel's Ivy Bridge, Haswell, and Broadwell graphics processors for enabling GPU process isolation. This enhances the security by providing a per file descriptor address space / context.

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...tem&px=MTgxOTU