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Missing support for some SKL, NVIDIA, AMDGPU, etc
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Currently Solus misses extensive support for several prominent items of hardware...

Intel

Notably, Skylake support is in a sorry state in Solus right now. Whilst certain IDs will boot ok, hardware acceleration is busted and GLES is unavailable.
In certain cases, we even lack the SKL IDs added to the kernel

  • Missing Color Manager (gamma control, etc) support
  • Missing SKL RAPL support - given the introduction of thermald by default this isn't acceptable in Solus.

NVIDIA

AMD

Miscellaneous

Obviously there are many other highly desirable changes between the 4.4 and current mainline 4.7 kernels that Solus requires, to list them all here. Solution appears to be an update to the 4.7 kernel.

  • Collate patches for our NVIDIA drivers for 4.7 update
  • Push kernel-4.7.0 to unstable
  • Quickly put an ISO together to validate booting
  • Rebuild all drivers
  • Get #Solus-Dev Testers to check every last piece ..

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ikey closed this task as Resolved.Aug 5 2016, 10:00 PM
ikey reopened this task as Open.
ikey triaged this task as High priority.
ikey raised the priority of this task from High to Unbreak Now!.
ikey created this task.

Eh, raising to unbreak now. Blocks: T19: Solus 1.2.1 (Meta Task)

ikey added a parent task: T19: Solus 1.2.1 (Meta Task).Aug 5 2016, 10:02 PM
ikey added a comment.EditedAug 5 2016, 10:25 PM

NVIDIA references:

  • 4.7 patch for new-gen
  • 4.6 patch for 340 series
  • 4.6 patch for 304 series
  • Disable MTRR in 304 nv-linux.h:
#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(4,3,0)
#undef CONFIG_MTRR
#endif
ikey updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 5 2016, 10:26 PM
ikey added a comment.Aug 5 2016, 10:28 PM

Note to self while doing the kernel update: Set performance as the default policy

ikey mentioned this in T55: Need to package AMDGPU Pro Driver.Aug 5 2016, 10:36 PM
ikey added a comment.Aug 6 2016, 12:35 AM

Pushed kernel build in https://git.solus-project.com/packages/kernel/commit/?h=kernel-4.7.0-146

ikey updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 6 2016, 12:36 AM
ikey updated the task description. (Show Details)Aug 6 2016, 1:18 AM

Kernel updated to 4.7.0 - fixed packaging issue
Onto the next steps ..

ikey mentioned this in T65: Update libva hardware acceleration support for Intel graphics.Aug 6 2016, 2:20 PM
ikey added a subtask: T65: Update libva hardware acceleration support for Intel graphics.Aug 6 2016, 2:35 PM
ikey closed this task as Resolved.Aug 8 2016, 1:52 AM
ikey updated the task description. (Show Details)

Happy to close this as implemented

ikey closed subtask T65: Update libva hardware acceleration support for Intel graphics as Resolved.Aug 8 2016, 1:53 AM
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