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[Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)
       Status: In Progress

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Title:
  Include support for Broadwell graphics hardware

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “linux” source package in Trusty:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  We need to support Broadwell (BDW) graphics in trusty, but some
  components are not fresh enough to provide a satisfactory user
  experience, most notably the 3.13 kernel and mesa 10.1.

  For the kernel the plan is to provide a separate driver module
  (i915_bdw) like for Haswell in quantal. The i915 driver in 3.13 is
  buggy and lacking features for BDW, so pulling the driver from current
  drm-intel-next branch would provide what'll end up in 3.15. The i915
  drivers will be modified so that only i915_bdw loads on BDW 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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