Bug 11228

Summary: Make decision on default Xorg driver for intel
Product: [Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core Reporter: Jussi Kukkonen <jku>
Component: graphicsAssignee: Jussi Kukkonen <jku>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Medium+ CC: meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version: 2.3   
Target Milestone: 2.4 M2   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Multiple   
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto: --- Type of Regression: ---
Verified: Documentation change: No (bug/feature does not impact docs)

Description Jussi Kukkonen 2017-03-23 15:44:29 UTC 
We should look at possibly switching default X driver for intel early in the 2.4 cycle. Options are xf86-video-intel (current) and modesetting.

Pros for changing to modesetting:
* modesetting is now part of xserver-xorg repo and the major distros have changed to using modesetting by default for modern intel hardware during the last year: this is a serious amount of real-world testing modesetting now gets and xf86-video-intel does not
* modesetting has had dozens of releases in the past 3 years, vs 0 releases for xf86-video-intel
* vulkan would work without xorg.conf snippets (it needs dri3 enabled)

Pros for staying at xf86-video-intel:
* Probably better performance in specific situations
Comment 1 Jussi Kukkonen 2017-06-08 12:43:31 UTC 
Did not talk to the people involved: Let's try M2
Comment 2 Jussi Kukkonen 2017-07-05 13:09:38 UTC 
No-one has expressed a strong opinion, Saul leaned towards "if it's not brôken don't fix it". So I'm guessing we stay at xf86-video-intel as default for now.