Update to the i915 kernel driver

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On Wednesday January 21th, Konstantin Belousov committed a first batch of updates to the i915 kernel video driver. Several fixes followed the initial commit.

His work brings the driver more closer to Linux 3.5 and thus includes several bug fixes and improvements to the support of generations up-to Ivy Bridge. However, Haswell and later generations are not supported yet: this will come at a later time.

Among the bugs fixed, the most annoying for users were:

  • Broken OpenGL applications (crashes, garbaged display) after one or more suspend/resume cycles. This regression appeared after the addition of hardware contexts support.
  • Backlight support which was non-functional for some people. The feedback seems positive now.

Furthermore, this driver refresh allows Jean-Sébastien Pédron to move forward with the DRM update work-in-progress. Another article will be posted on that topic.

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