Bug 11228 - Make decision on default Xorg driver for intel
Summary: Make decision on default Xorg driver for intel
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: OE-Core
Classification: Build System, Metadata & Runtime
Component: graphics (show other bugs)
Version: 2.3
Hardware: x86 Multiple
: Medium+ enhancement
Target Milestone: 2.4 M2
Assignee: Jussi Kukkonen
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Reported: 2017-03-23 15:44 UTC by Jussi Kukkonen
Modified: 2017-07-05 13:09 UTC (History)
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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.