On Thu, 01 Dec 2016, Chris Pemberton <cjpembo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm really enjoying the Intel Skylake graphics in Fedora 24/25 and > Archlinux; thanks for all of the great work. I remember the old XIG > AcceleratedX drivers from years ago... > > I would rather get back to using CentOS on my Skylake development > laptop; Fedora 25 has failed on my twice in two weeks. And I > understand that the latest Intel graphics stack requires a very recent > kernel/libdrm/mesa/cairo, etc to make that happen. > > I was wondering if anyone on this list has any knowledge of: > > 1. if it is even possible for Red Hat to back-port support for Skylake > graphics in rhel 7.x? > > 2. and if it is possible, is anyone here privy to a time line? > > There is one "bug" report pending at R.H. stating that Skylake graphics > are not working, so at least they are aware. They hinted at the 7.3 > release; but that didn't seem to happen. > > I know it is easy to install a mainline kernel in CentOS, but that > still leaves the other dependencies to contend with. So should I hold > my breath with R.H.? Or do you think the rhel 7.x series is just too > far behind to be an option with Skylake graphics? Frankly it sounds like you should be talking to Red Hat / CentOS folks rather than drm/i915 upstream... BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
