Practically every distro has moved from -intel to -modesettings because its a better, faster driver. I think we should to.
Patch sent: http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2018-March/148566.html
Fixed for master: https://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=be7511a33deb7c7eb38760ca60564da42c79d41e