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Linux 6.16 Bringing A Fix For Old Intel Haswell Graphics
With the Linux 6.15-rc6 kernel release due out on Sunday, we're hitting the transition point where the focus on DRM kernel graphics drivers for Linux 6.16 is shifting from feature work to bug-fixing ahead of this next merge window
As such sent out today were drm-misc-next and drm-intel-gt-next pull requests focused on preparing various kernel graphics/display driver fixes for the new code coming to Linux 6.16. Coming for Linux 6.16 is adding a 20ms delay to the code path for engine reset to improve robustness on the old integrated graphics. The other changes included in today's drm-intel-gt-next pull request for Linux 6.16 material includes:"Driver Changes: - Fix SLPC wait boosting reference counting to avoid getting stuck on non-boost frequency on power saving profile on DG1/DG2 (Vinay) - Add 20ms delay to engine reset for robustness on HSW (Nitin) - Use proper sleeping functions for timeouts shorter than 20ms (Andi) - Fix fence not released on early probe errors for HuC (Janusz) - Remove const from struct i915_wa list allocation (Kees) - Apply SPDX license format where missing and use single-line format (Andi) - Whitespace fixes (Dan, Andi) - Selftest improvements (Mikolaj, Badal, Sk,"
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