I'm not sure it should be brought back, since there are still bugs with it, see https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2017-October/142787.html
maybe by 18.04 it's mature enough. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux-firmware in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1721781 Title: missing firmware for i915 KBL Status in linux-firmware package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in linux-firmware source package in Xenial: New Bug description: XPS 9360 (KBL) I was running a newer kernel on xenial userspace and noticed the following in syslog: i915 0000:00:02.0: Direct firmware load for i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin failed with error -2 i915 0000:00:02.0: Failed to load DMC firmware [https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/firmware], disabling runtime power management. Checking in /lib/firmware/i915 and comparing https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/firmware I noticed that none of the KBL firmware is available (DMC, GuC, or HuC). These commits are needed to backport this firmware into Xenial: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/i915/kbl_dmc_ver1_01.bin?id=9facc31d772a3ed399760d2168d644f9de84d6db https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/i915/kbl_huc_ver02_00_1810.bin?id=56016d2019e1335ed9739a3d31636db058d72d68 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/i915/kbl_guc_ver9_14.bin?id=d7fe1272a38777a41ce9d1df80f58ace2d9e3d27 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/i915/kbl_guc_ver9_14.bin?id=a22b7703f88a85180f00a1088cdbe739222f9cd5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/1721781/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
