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Intel Linux Graphics Installer Changelog

What's new in Intel Linux Graphics Installer 1.0.8

Apr 20, 2015
  • Supports Ubuntu 14.10 and Fedora 21 operating systems

New in Intel Linux Graphics Installer 1.0.7 (Nov 12, 2014)

  • The xserver-xorg package will not be updated on either Ubuntu* or Fedora*
  • Supports Ubuntu 14.04 and Fedora 20 operating systems

New in Intel Linux Graphics Installer 1.0.5 (May 16, 2014)

  • This release supports Ubuntu 14.04 and Fedora 20.

New in Intel Linux Graphics Installer 1.0.4 (Mar 21, 2014)

  • This release supports Ubuntu 13.10 and Fedora 20

New in Intel Linux Graphics Installer 1.0.2 (Jul 31, 2013)

  • Highlighted new features or fixed bugs:
  • Kernel:
  • hotplug improvements
  • Stolen mem support.
  • DDI code cleanups.
  • Some refactorings around LVDS and DP code.
  • Dynamic power well support for Haswell.
  • Clarifications of the GPU hang/reset state transitions.
  • Haswell ELD fixes.
  • Broadcast RBG improvements and reduced color range fixes.
  • Regression fix for 8-bit FB console.
  • Preserve lane reversal bits on DDI/FDI ports.
  • Page flip vs. GPU hang fixes.
  • Fixup lid notifier vs. suspend/resume races.
  • Panel fitter regression fix.
  • Complete and detailed list can found at Maintainer's (Daniel Vetter) post.
  • 2D drivers:
  • Fix scanline waits for Haswell.
  • Fix Haswell CRW PCI-IDs.
  • Fix computation of clip extents for stippling.
  • Support KMS on OpenBSD.
  • Clean up sockets upon CloseScreen.
  • Fix video playback on Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000, X3000, X3500, X3100, 4500, X4500, X4500HD, and 4500MHD.
  • Honour LinearFramebuffer for clumsy PowerXpress integration.
  • Restart vertex checks after lock contention.
  • Handle Screen Pixmap recreation whilst exported via PRIME.
  • Correct application of scale factors to video source offsets.
  • Correct GPU limits for early Intel® Extreme Graphics 1 and 2 and Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 900, 950, 3100, 3150 architectures.
  • Prevent buffer leak if a non-fullscreen Window is closed with multiple pending swap events.
  • Fix offset transformation for fallback gradient paths.
  • Prevent Glamor from crashing if misconfigured.
  • Prevent UXA from crashing if torn down during PreInit.
  • Fix rendering of CompositeTriFan with recent Xorg.
  • Fix rendering of multiple glyphs to very large destination surfaces.
  • Fix several assertion failures.
  • Allow XvMC to also target overlay/sprite planes.
  • Prevent reuse of old framebuffers after a resize.
  • Introduce copy-on-write support for cloning pixmaps.
  • Prevent potential NULL dereference of damage when checking COW support.
  • Fix invalidation of clone after dirtying the pixmap via the CPU.
  • Prevent discarding an operation before requiring it for a fallback.
  • Fix memory leak from replacing the clone under certain circumstances.
  • Restore vsync on textured videos.
  • 3D Drivers:
  • Performance Improvements.
  • Fix GPU hangs in Intel® Core™ i3/i5/i7 and 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics.
  • Fix hangs on 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics, Iris™ Graphics, or Iris™ Pro Graphics.
  • Fix Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000, X3000, X3500, X3100, 4500, X4500, X4500HD, 4500MHD VUE map inconsistency with gl_ClipVertex.
  • Fix register allocation for uniform pull constants in 16-wide.
  • Fix broken rendering in large shaders with UBO loads.
  • Also do the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000, X3000, X3500, X3100, 4500, X4500, X4500HD, 4500MHD SEND dependency workaround against other SENDs
  • Add data cache messages definitions for 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics and newer platforms.
  • Fix INTEL_DEBUG=shader_time for 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics, Iris™ Graphics, or Iris™ Pro Graphics.
  • Specialize SURFACE_STATE creation for shader time.
  • Make INTEL_DEBUG=shader_time use the RAW surface format.
  • Fix regression in intel_create_image_from_name stride handling.
  • Avoid inappropriate optimization with regs_written gt.
  • Do CSE on 3rd and 4th Generation Intel® Core™ Processors with Intel® HD Graphics, Iris™ Graphics, or Iris™ Pro Graphics varying-index pull constant loads.
  • Media Drivers - Libva/Intel-vaapi-driver:
  • H.264 encoding on Intel® SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell:
  • Profile: Baseline (BP), Main (MP) and High Profiles (HP).
  • Entropy Coding: Context-adaptive variable-length coding (CAVLC) and Context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC).
  • Rate Control: CQP, CBR.
  • Progressive frame.
  • Multi Slice encoding.
  • Configurable Group Of Pictures (GOP) Structure.
  • MPEG-2 encoding on Intel® IvyBridge and Haswell:
  • Profile: Scalable (SP) and Main Profiles (MP).
  • Progressive frame.
  • Configurable Group of Pictures (GOP) Structure.
  • Video process on Intel® IronLake, SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell:
  • Scaling on Intel® IronLake, SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell.
  • CSC on Intel® IronLake, SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell.
  • NoiseReduction on Intel® SandyBridge, IvyBridge and Haswell.
  • Deinterlacing{Bob} on Intel® SandyBridge, IvyBridge.
  • Deinterlacing{Bob,MotionAdaptive} on Intel® Haswell.
  • Sharpening on Intel® Haswell.
  • ColorBalance on Intel® Haswell.
  • Optimization for H.264 encoding on Intel® IvyBridge and Haswell.
  • External buffer support:
  • Flinked GEM buffer.
  • Prime/DMA buffer.