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[Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Added initramfs-tools because i915_bpo needs to be added to the list of
modules to include.

** Also affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Summary changed:

- Backport more recent driver for Kabylake and Broxton graphics
+ Backport more recent driver for SKL, KBL and BXT graphics

** Description changed:

- We need to support Kabylake (KBL) and Broxton (BXT) graphics in xenial,
- but the kernel driver is not fresh enough for proper support.
+ We need to support Skylake (SKL), Kabylake (KBL) and Broxton (BXT)
+ graphics in xenial, but the kernel driver is not fresh enough for proper
+ support.
  
  For the kernel the plan is to provide a separate driver module
- (i915_bpo) like for Skylake in vivid. The drm/i915 driver in 4.4 is not
- recent enough for KBL/BXT, so pulling the driver from current drm-intel-
- next branch would provide what'll end up in 4.6. The i915 drivers will
- be modified so that only i915_bpo loads on KBL/BXT machines, and only
- there. The driver will get further updates along the way, and possibly
- also rebased to a later kernel release.
+ (i915_bpo) like for Skylake/Broadwell/Braswell in vivid. The drm/i915
+ driver in 4.4 is not recent enough for SKL/KBL/BXT, so pulling the
+ driver from current drm-intel-next branch would provide what'll end up
+ in 4.6. The i915 drivers will be modified so that only i915_bpo loads on
+ SKL/KBL/BXT machines, and only there. The driver will get further
+ updates along the way, and possibly also rebased to a later kernel
+ release.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1540390

Title:
  Backport more recent driver for SKL, KBL and BXT graphics

Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  We need to support Skylake (SKL), Kabylake (KBL) and Broxton (BXT)
  graphics in xenial, but the kernel driver is not fresh enough for
  proper support.

  For the kernel the plan is to provide a separate driver module
  (i915_bpo) like for Skylake/Broadwell/Braswell in vivid. The drm/i915
  driver in 4.4 is not recent enough for SKL/KBL/BXT, so pulling the
  driver from current drm-intel-next branch would provide what'll end up
  in 4.6. The i915 drivers will be modified so that only i915_bpo loads
  on SKL/KBL/BXT machines, and only there. The driver will get further
  updates along the way, and possibly also rebased to a later kernel
  release.

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