Intel Has Some New DRM Graphics Code For Testing: More Kabylake, MST Audio

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Has Some New DRM Graphics Code For Testing: More Kabylake, MST Audio

Intel's Open-Source Technology Center has some new code ready for testing on their DRM kernel graphics driver...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-DRM-Test-MST-KBL

[dkasak]

I'd certainly hope it's in better shape than their Skylake support. I'm running a 4.3 kernel in a new Lenovo laptop ( which supposedly are 'good' for Linux support ), and I have an embarassing number of critical issues. I get a long series of kernel oopses in the DRM module on boot. I get regular graphics hangs ( though it seems to recover without a hard lockup ). The driver is clearly hitting software fallbacks in numerous places, as Enlightenment-0.20 ( with GL compositing ) runs slower than I remember with a FAR inferior integrated Intel graphics chip - intel_gpu_top shows the GPU maxing out just with a couple of windows open ( with no movement in any window ).

That's just the graphics side of things. I have an Intel wifi card in this laptop too, and it *also* kernel oopses on startup, and often won't load at all until I insert a USB WIFI dongle - and then I get 2 devices.

Intel: more developers and testers are clearly required to keep up with your hardware roadmap.