Call for testing: drm/i915 update to Linux 3.14

Carsten Mattner carstenmattner at gmail.com
Fri May 8 02:23:15 PDT 2015


On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:42 AM, Francois Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 10:09:01PM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote:
>>
>> I have prepared an update of the drm/i915 gpu driver to Linux 3.14
> [...]
>> I'm confident this branch doesn't introduce any major regression.
>> Given the scope of the changes it's worth it to give it some extented
>> testing before pushing it to -master though.
>
> And no negative feedback was ever received, this code is now on -master.

It's great you're getting ever closer to current kernel.org. Keep up the
good work!

> TBH, it appears not all Broadwell SKUs are supported yet but this update
> is still an improvement.

There was no Broadwell available when 3.14 came out so it's unsurprising
the bringup is incomplete. For good Broadwell support I wouldn't bet on
anything older than 3.19 drm but earlier may work.



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