FS#76422 - [xf86-video-intel] Prefer Iris driver

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Guido Iodice (guiodic) - Friday, 04 November 2022, 17:55 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 04 November 2022, 20:26 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Please apply the attached patch (from Freebsd) to prefer iris over i965 on newest hardware.
   patch-prefer-iris.patch (0.8 KiB)
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Friday, 04 November 2022, 20:26 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 04 November 2022, 19:10 GMT
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_graphics#Installation

The -intel driver is not recommended for anything after 2006 models. Also the driver is pretty unmaintained upstream and a strong removal candidate.
Comment by Guido Iodice (guiodic) - Friday, 04 November 2022, 19:51 GMT
yes I know but it works very well with this patch and is much faster than modesetting because the SNA acceleration.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 04 November 2022, 20:26 GMT
Then do a custom build. I won't touch that driver until it gets finally removed from the repos.

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