[Mesa-dev] intel skylake gpu support

[Rob Clark]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Ben Widawsky <ben at bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 10:39:23AM -0500, Rob Clark wrote:
>> Try xf86-video-modesetting instead of xf86-video-intel..
>
> Might I inquire the thought behind this? It's my impression that unless one is
> using glamor, modesetting won't ever outperform xf86-video-intel (which defaults
> to the hardware blitter on gen9+). Certainly modesetting might be a logical
> choice if there are corruption issues.

yeah, use of glamor was the point, since afaiu sna doesn't support skl
yet (or at least doesn't support xv on skl)

> It sounds more like the person is missing all the required vaapi goop to me, but
> I'm genuinely curious if you know something I don't :-)

could be.. although I'd expect a skl system should be able to play
youtube videos on the cpu without much problem..

BR,
-R